The downside of electric vehicles.

[Spongebob]

Uh huh.....

Care to tell us what you PAID for that car?

You math sucks like a black hole chum....


Lets look at my costs...... The most expensive car I have ever bought? 

$2200.

The car I am driving right now I paid $900. I filled it up the other day and it cost me $26. with the driving I do that will last a couple weeks. It gets 35 mpg. I can and do all my own maintenance except for transaxle overhauls and paint jobs.

Old piece of shit? Old yes. POS no - it is in excellent condition and I would confidently hop in it right now and drive anywhere in the country. 

It is how - on poverty fixed income I can own 13 cars... Of course 5 of those are for parts.

I could not afford the payments, insurance or registration on ONE new car. It is laughable to suggest that I could.

I didn't say anything about the purchase price, nor did you OP.  All you were griping about was battery replacement costs.  And I answered that unequivocally.  

My car gets around 32 mgp and holds about 14 gallons.  With the prices we have now where I live, that's right at $42 on flat empty.

That's all I addressed because that's all your stupid OP was griping about.  Now, of course, you are doing your usual goal post movement and acting like I didn't address your first point.  You just don't like to admit when you've been beaten.  Maybe if you spent as much time working as you do posting on here you wouldn't be so poor.

The biggest downside that is never discussed is the fact ( yes - fact) that the move to electric vehicles will eventually make it impossible for lower income people to own a car. If you don' t see this as a problem then we have to assume you think all poor people should be stuck in an inner city ghetto. That is the only place they can survive. Rural life doesn' t include mass transit.

Why does it make it impossible for the poor to own a car?

Ever price the maintenance?


Go google " what does it cost to replace the batteries in a Chevy Volt"..... They do need it every 5-7 years.

Just the battery is over $8700. No labor.

And NO the price will not go down as production goes up. Production costs will go down - but MATERIAL costs will go up drastically due to the scarcity of the materials.

There will be no cheap cars. The remaining gas vehicles will be snatched up by wealthier people when production of gas powered vehicles stops due to regulation.

All you mentioned was the battery costs.  Car manufacturers are already building less expensive EVs, btw.  We are still at the leading edge of this product.  What, you think gas cars were always cheap?  They were the plaything of the rich originally.  Gripers gonna gripe.