Volkswagen Looks Towards Vans and Pickups for U.S. Lineup

More chargers will help adaptation as well.  EV's are probably a better option for 80% of consumers, maybe more.  Delivery vans, mail trucks, school busses all make more sense as an EV, commuter cars should be EV's.   Pickups used for towing should be diesel.  Maybe some ICE sports cars, but the Mustang is down this year after 2024 was its worst year ever so I don't see where the ICE sports car demand even is.  Outside of like a $400k Ferrari but that is so limited a market. Tesla will probably never top their 2023 sales volume.  They might drop to like 1.5 million units a year or maybe even less and just hover around that volume the next 10 years.  The Chinese are kicking their ass on price and the Europeans won't buy them.

Well I pretty much have accepted that I won't be buying a car until 2029 because a Rav4 will probably cost about $60k by summer at the rate we are going.

I agree that once more low cost options are on the market and people who cannot afford a 50k to 100k EV drive a 20k to 30k ev they will change over due to less maintenance and far superior interior space and driving experience. Every person who has driven an ev has pretty much told me they would not go back to ICE except for those that drive allot due to their job, they are not wanting to change habits in how one charges over fueling or as the news has blown up, those living where it is hard to charge. The driving experience was not the problem, it was the ability to charge and idiot landlords that are missing out to charging fees that they could make due to being stupid. FYI China auto association that reports registrations have confirmed that Tesla sales were down 49% for the month of February in China.

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There need to be more EV's and lower cost ones.  Once the Chevy Bolt, Kia EV2, EV3, EV4 type cars come out with lower costs the EV market should pick up.  And Mercedes has a whole new EV line coming, GM is still expanding Ultium, Toyota isn't even in the game yet, so once all those guys ramp up there will be a lot of options. I think a lot of the EV pushback is from people that don't want to lose their V8 or sports car, which is a small % of the population or people that know nothing about EVs.  Sure people don't want to lose their gas 911.  But I can't imagine anyone is saying the 3 cylinder Ford Escape, 3-cylinder Nissan Rogue, 3-cylinder Chevy Trailblazer, are some sort of excellent driving experience and they are going to hold onto poor NVH, underpowered engines that the turbos blow after 100k miles and "you'll have to pry it away from my cold dead hands."   Most sub $40k cars are just appliances that an EV with a bad driving experience.  Once they get $30-40k EV's out, you'll have Rolls Royce level NVH compared to a Nissan Altima or something it will be night and day.