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The withering dream of a cheap American electric car

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152 points voisin | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 23:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.285s | source
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the_gastropod ◴[18 Nov 24 16:18 UTC] No.42173857[source]▶
It's weird the Chevy Bolt wasn't mentioned. After the $7500 tax credit, you could get a brand new Chevy Bolt for under $20k. If you haven't driven a Bolt, I can't recommend it more. It's about as perfect as car as I could reasonably dream up. It's a hatchback, minimally gimmicky (compared to, e.g, a Tesla, where so many things are "different" for the sake of being different), unnecessarily fast—truly, it's shocking how quick it is, very respectable range of ~270 miles, has Apple CarPlay (or Android's equivalent if you're into that sort of thing), and it's cheap.

I picked up a used 2023 for $14k last month. Hertz is unloading their fleet of EV's, so they're ridiculously cheap if you don't mind driving a former rental car.

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1. elsonrodriguez ◴[18 Nov 24 18:45 UTC] No.42175531[source]▶
Picked up a used Bolt as well. Certified used with 7 years left on the battery warranty for about $15k.

Anyone who actually wants a cheap EV can buy a cheap EV.

There's just too many people that think they need a 3 row EV SUV with 500 miles of range, and that it should be under $35k.

Also the goal posts keep getting moved. Used to be people would say EVs will never take off until they hit $35k. Now that there are new EVs that can be had for that price, the new problem is that EVs will never take off unless they're $25k.

Meanwhile just about every EV sales graph shows an upward trajectory regardless of these "requirements".