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Electric cars became more affordable across much of the world in 2025 — except the U.S
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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
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.
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.