Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Battery prices are falling, so why are electric cars still so expensive? (www.nature.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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[–] Steve 24 points 10 months ago

I believe manufactures (in the US and Europe at least) view EVs as new high tech luxury items still. Then they add features and margins appropriate to those markets. "The poors can keep using the old low tech stuff." That kind of thinking, nothing more complicated than that.