The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

(www.wsj.com)

152 points voisin | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 23:52 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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bartvk ◴[18 Nov 24 00:05 UTC] No.42168473[source]▶

I wish it would have adjusted for inflation. One quote: "The average transaction price for a new vehicle sold in the U.S. last month was $48,623, according to Kelley Blue Book, roughly $10,000 higher than in 2019, before the pandemic." However, about 9200 euros of that is due to inflation according to this calculator: https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

That's a nitpick though. All in all, an interesting article, which can be summarized as: the EV car market is lacking demand, and car makers definitely don't want to make cheap EVs since it's already so hard.

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navane ◴[18 Nov 24 00:22 UTC] No.42168574[source]▶

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Is the car 10k more expensive because of inflation or is the inflation so high because the car costs 10k more?

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1. rootusrootus ◴[18 Nov 24 02:33 UTC] No.42169238[source]▶

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Is it actually $10K more expensive? The F150 Lightning I just bought was cheaper than the hybrid version I was looking at buying. The Tesla Model 3 & Y seem to be priced pretty competitively, as well.

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