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You can't make an "affordable" electric SUV. The vast majority of the cost of any EV is in the battery. Giving it a giant frontal area means it's inherently inefficient and the only way to make up for that it by putting more battery in it, which jacks up the price.
Give us more small electric sedans, coupes, hatchbacks, etc.
I worked at a major battery company for 11 years. You're wrong. If you produce them in enough volume they're practically free. Less than the cost of an internal combustion engine. I'm not a Tesla fan, but their entire cost model is built on mass producing 18650 batteries.
Transporting refined fossil fuels from countries half way around the world is way less efficient and costly. Electric vehicles aren't going to defeat climate change, but I'm so sick of hearing pushback against them. They're at least better than ICE vehicles because batteries are 100% recyclable, and the electricity used to charge them can come from renewable sources.
Roll coal in your illegally modified truck all you want, but this is the future.
What are you talking about? They're absolutely not.
No one is talking about fossil fuels?
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment. I did not "push back against electric vehicles", I advocated for smaller, more affordable ones.
Thanks to your reply, I'm leaving Lemmy. This is such an insular doomsaying community that can't hear anything that conflicts with their world view. I came here as a reddit refugee when Spez decided he liked money more than anything, but I'm not going to be berated by people with closed minds. Have a nice life.
Glad to hear it, this community could use less toxic users.
Get fucked.
I thought you were leaving?
It does look fairly big, so it's going to be expensive as you've explained.
Some places take the weight of vehicles into account to compute incentives, giving less subsidies for heavier cars. One way or another it should be factored in.
By "some places" you mean some countries?
Yes, see information on Incentives in France
That's awesome, you almost never see the US incentivizing small vehicles. Actually have been doing the opposite for a long time with CAFE exemptions, oil subsidies, and chicken taxes.
Yes, it's a good change, although it's recent. Vehicles sizes have increased everywhere, France included, because of SUVs. It'll take time to reverse. At the same time the overall budget for EVs incentives was reduced, so it's a mixed bag.
the rocket equation.
all my homies hate the rocket equation
Haven't heard of that before but yeah, kinda. Although it's more about aerodynamics than weight.