• Rob Bos@lemmy.ca
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      That talking point is a bit out of date - the average price for a car int he USA (for example) is quite a bit higher than base EVs now. They’re cheaper to manufacture and gas vehicles won’t be able to compete. The only missing piece is infrastructure for charging in some places.

      It won’t be long before EVs are the cheap option. Tesla for instance is supposedly putting out a cheap option soon, but I’m not holding my breath.

      Tesla is probably a good one to bank on, though. The gigacasting process shaves a LOT of manufacturing cost.

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        That’s good to hear, but I think it’s disingenuous to say that EVs are the cheaper option when talking about people who aren’t within reach of even the cheapest new cars. Until we start seeing used decent condition EVs under $10k they’re still out of reach to a lot of people. It sucks because these are the same people who would benefit most from the lower operating costs.

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          Sure. But that’s something that’ll come with time. We should be preparing our infrastructure for five-ten years from now, not this year. If we wait until EVs are sub-10k used, then we’ll have a massive infrastructure crunch.

          Yes, you can make an argument now for EVs being a rich person plaything, but that’s a snapshot in time. The curves are trending downward fast.

          In a few years, gas vehicles are going to be for the rich assholes who refuse to get with the program and demand their precious gas stations get subsidized by the government more than they are already. It might not be too long before gas stations in city cores are completely uneconomic because 20%+ of their customer base evaporated.

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            There will almost certainly be a period where people are trying to dump their gas vehicles, selling them way below market, which will make them attractive to the less wealthy, which will also very much increase the temptation for governments to subsidize gas infrastructure. :(

            That will further increase the price pressure on gas vehicles, they’ll be screwed by the new cheap EVs AND the cheap used gas market.

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          Give it a few years. EVs are inherently cheaper to manufacture, and economies of scale are kicking in like crazy now. “Lol” is not exactly a great response to that basic fact.

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        The average car is basically a pickup truck. BEVs are not even close to being cost competitive. Especially against used cars.

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      Man, it’s really unfair to make me pay for the roads on the other side of town. I never drive on them!

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      Most buildings we have installed them they’ve made the people that want them pay to install them, now this may cause an issue when they leave and fight that the charger is theirs, but at least the wiring is in place for the next.

      Some buildings are installing public ones, and it’s no different than other amenities, no one in a building utilizes all the amenities. It’s a red herring in the end to claim that.

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      Either the costs are shared between renters, like pools and other benefits, or they are charged to the people who use them. It is very likely that a portion will be shared by all with additional cost on use like parking often is.