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No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (41 children)

I'm in the market for a BEV. Have been for 3 years. The reason I don't have one is:

A. The cars that are large enough for my use case (weekend getaways with kids and or friends) are all super expensive luxury vehicles with poor ratings.

B. Availability. Other than the Mustang Mach-E, nothing is available here (Canada) without a minimum 6 month wait list. (Ioniq 5 is 1 year).

C. Poor reliability and/or features. (See the disaster that is the Chevy Blazer EV).

At this point I'm waiting for the Ioniq 7. Hopefully it will be as well reviewed as it's sister the EV9.

The reason GM and Ford are not selling well is because nobody wants what they're selling. But they're framing it as an general EV issue and not a crap product issue.

The media and those apposed to EVs are buying it of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Yeah, I want a Mach-E (at least in theory) ... but I want it to have a good 500-600 mile range (or for the charging network to be much bigger than it is)... It's unfortunate really

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The charging network actually is about to get much bigger, as Ford will be able to use tesla superchargers starting sometime within next few months. (and is providing a free adapter to owners). I've had my Mach e for 6 months and couldn't be happier with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The charging network expansion is something I'll be watching. I decided the very soonest I'll buy is after they've switched things to the Tesla connector (which seems to be the one that's going to win).

The adapter is definitely nice but I'd rather not have yet another unnecessary connection adapter in my life lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I always wondered why people didn’t talk about this more. Ami the only one that thinks announcing a new charging connector in two years is announcing your current cars are obsolete? It would be annoying to pay so much for a car that will need to use an adapter in two years. I wouldnt do it. That’s got to hit their sales

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