this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2024
50 points (96.3% liked)

[Dormant] Electric Vehicles (Moved to !electricvehicles@slrpnk.net)

3276 readers
1 users here now

We have moved to:

!electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

ArchiveA community for the sharing of links, news, and discussion related to Electric Vehicles.

Rules

  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, casteism, speciesism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
  2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
  3. No self-promotion.
  4. No irrelevant content. All posts must be relevant and related to plug-in electric vehicles — BEVs or PHEVs.
  5. No trolling.
  6. Policy, not politics. Submissions and comments about effective policymaking are allowed and encouraged in the community, however conversations and submissions about parties, politicians, and those devolving into general tribalism will be removed.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] snooggums@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Government subsidies are a hell of a thing.

It would be great if we could have some minimalist EV offerings in the US though.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe the US should shift all their fossil fuel subsidies to EVs then.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

That would be my preference.

[–] schizoidman@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

A Honda fit is just USD $12000 in China. Its just cars where you are from are overpriced.

https://www.ghac.cn/vehicles/fit

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, in the US our market is being held hostage and we're forced to make a decision between the same half dozen EVs starting at $30,000