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Volkswagen seeks to counter rivals with budget EV model

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144 points herbertl | 1 comments | 06 Mar 25 00:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.348s | source
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mixedCase ◴[06 Mar 25 01:14 UTC] No.43275007[source]▶
That's way too expensive for an "affordable EV".

The BYD Seagull retails here in Uruguay for less than that and we tax cars at about 100%. On China it seems to go for 10-12k.

It's a proper, basic city car. 4 to 6 air bags, ~300km range (more than what this article's car indicates), all basic security features and standard gadgets out of a modern car.

Our EV infrastructure is not viable if you don't have a charger at work/home and yet these have sold like hot cakes.

Legacy carmakers are making increasingly worse ICE cars for the most part (btw does GM sell a C-segment hatchback on any market, anymore?) and their EVs are simply uncompetitive. What's it going to take for them to wake up to the fact they're going to have to stop fleecing their customers with crappy products? Bankruptcy?

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1. Nursie ◴[06 Mar 25 01:30 UTC] No.43275166[source]▶
They don't sell the seagull here in Australia, but the entry level Dolphin retails at about US $1000 less than this new EV.

With this not due to start production for two years, it does look like they're well behind the game and unlikely to be able to compete on price.

(edit - I realise this is at least in part because the Chinese government subsidise the industry, and here in Aus we have no tariffs on them because we have no car industry to protect)