The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown.
Other factors contributing to waning EV demand in the United States include stubborn inflation, high interest rates and underwhelming growth in model availability, the study said.
Well, when the people that could afford to buy one and were considering it in former years ended up buying one and the people who were waiting for them to become more affordable were met with the news that their only hope for a cheap option was artificially doubled in price overnight to try to prolong the death knells of American hegemony then your left with fewer people considering them.
I’ve wanted one for many years - but so far there is still no EV minivan for sale, and that is what my family needs right now.
This gave me a boner
Not true.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/02/ford-rethinks-ev-strategy-is-working-on-a-smaller-cheaper-ev-platform/
A smaller platform? Say, perhaps, a sedan? Like they universally stopped making across all their brands in favor of SUVs and pickups?
MG is owned by China, and I have this fever dream that they’ll produce something like the MGB but electric. A cheap fun sports car, built and priced for young people. It wouldn’t need powerful motors or a huge battery pack or a ton of features.
It’ll never happen, but it’s nice to imagine.