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Are Electric Vehicles the New Quartz Watches?

So, a series of awful circumstances lead me to owning a Tesla. The INSANE rebates and Tesla's discounts made this car cost me less than $24k new. Honestly, I think that is exactly what it is worth. For note: Elon is awful and I kind of hate myself for owning this car. However...it is amazing. I am not a car person. I don't drive fast. I just need a reliable way to get to work. There is no romance about cars for me...usually. This basically runs on a upscaled version of my toothbrush. It runs on software that looks like my 2017 Android. But it is an amazing car. I love my Speedy, but it makes no sense as a watch if you don't love watches. A smartwatch costs 1/10th the price and is massively more functional for most people. A Timex is 1/100th and equally functional. Are we about to enter a period where EVs become stupid cheap to build (Imagine a car version of a $500 Amazon Ebike. $7-8k easily.)? Will we romanticize a gas engine the way we do a mechanical watch? My thoughts? Absolutely.

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[–] timestudies4meandu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Just like the swiss time trials when Seiko took over the accuracy on mechanical swiss, Ev's have destroyed ICE vehicles

[–] M3Core@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think you'll be surprised in the next 20 years at where the auto industry is going. EVs are not sustainable.

There's a reason Toyota is sticking with Hybrid and not going all-in on pure EV, and it's not because Toyota isn't keeping up.

[–] Prisma_Cosmos@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Wouldn't EVs be more like the Swiss quartz movements that beat the Japanese and Swiss mechanicals (which would be ICE)?