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Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S
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Electric cars were not meant to save the environment. They were meant to save the auto industry.
How is my $12k used EV city car, getting charged on 10kw of solar on the roof, not making at least a minuscule dent in the clarity of the air?
How typical do you believe your situation to be?
I see more Cybertrucks and electric Humvees than I do Nissan Leafs (Leaves?).
Fwiw, I'm not denying that they are less harmful to the environment than gas cars, rather that the stated motive is bullshit. If they were truly serious about the environment, they would also be promoting WFH. A mile not driven at all is even better than an electrically-driven mile.
Yeah, but fortunately there's a whole world outside of 'Murica where we drive normal EVs because we're not trying to compensate for our inadequacies
Increasingly common in countries other than the USA.
For example Australia has a huge uptake in home rooftop solar and now home batteries due to gov subsidies, and thanks to the USA fucking with the Iran and consequently severly affecting our fuel supply, EV sales are now taking off.
The problem is that your stance is needlessly binary. Just because they were intended to "save the auto industry" doesn't mean that they're not also better for the environment.
The narrative that the manufacturing of EV's is just as bad as the pollution from ICE vehicles has long been debunked and even if you're charging from home via the grid, that doesn't mean it's environmentally bad, the push towards renewable energy production is ongoing.
The US is vastly behind the times but that's not the fault of EVs. Take the UK for example, which is producing more and more green energy. It stopped burning coal years ago and regularly runs almost entirely on pure renewables. That means EV's charging there are regularly being charged from renewables, even when pulling from the grid.
most electric cars are built like fucking iphones and are difficult to repair.
I guarantee that you can't do shit with an internal combustion vehicle either, but you like to make noise
Only the battery packs... Tesla for example, for what its worth (obligatory fuck Nazi Elon Musk), provides full detailed service manuals for free for ever component on the car.
I heard that getting the parts is very difficult. The manuals are of limited use if you can't get the parts to do the work.
We threw the auto industry a bone and the American companies still ficked it up lmao
This hasn't been the first time either