You can't crash this into another vehicle at 60kph and walk away nearly unscathed so it's just not suitable for roads in the civilized world.
Also I need a theoretical range of at least 600km between charges because what if I suddenly have to do that under time pressure? This not being a thing that has ever happened to me doesn't mean it won't ever happen to me
And lastly, how am I supposed to put enough groceries (that I get alone) for a family of three for 2 weeks in there? I have never learned how to pack anything and so my only option is to lay it all flat out on the ground and never stack anything
75 mile range in such a large country is absurd
great if you wanna just get around beijing but why not just be train gang at that point
75 mile range in such a large country is absurd
Why? People have a time budget for travel, not a distance budget.
yeah but does china really have such extensive battery swapping stuff that you can stop by and do it like a fill up
Is it a deliberate strategy to have people go by train and disincentivice car traffic? If so it is based.
Yes, I know Beijing has a lottery for new license plates, and Shanghai has an auction. Other cities use a combination of the two methods from what I've heard, so that less well-off people have a chance while also allowing them to raise some significant revenue from the wealthy. These restrictions on new license plates allow the cities to manage congestion and keep air pollution low. Also, there are separate quotas for hybrids/electric cars which give better lottery odds.
I don't know, my point was more that 75 mile range is fine for large swaths ofs people. Size of the country has little correlation with distance of trips taken, that's mostly a planning thing.
Electric car battery life degrades pretty quickly, esp in hot conditions.
In Denmark the cheapest new electric car is a Dacia Spring Electric starting at USD 20.500. This is advertised as "making electric cars available to everyone". If you can stand the injustice of driving a pre-owned car you can be lucky to find a 2015 Renault Zoe for USD 9.200.
buying an electric car used sounds like a terrible decision, the battery will fry out and youll need to pay basically the price of the whole car to get a new battery
How? Why does a french car become $11,800 cheaper when they ship it to china?
Several reasons
- They can get away with charging more in the imperial core than they can in China
- AFAIK China subsidises electric cars whereas Denmark taxes them
- They're all made in China anyways. You save on shipping.
Wish we had them here. Would have been perfect for my partner who needed a car just for getting to and from work and stuff, instead she’s stuck with this lemon her family helped her get lol. ( we have no trains here )
The extended capacity model is 110 miles, which isn't bad for city driving. Chinese consumers seem to like the car overall, given that it's the best selling electric car in China right now.
I was just going to say "EVs are real if they're golf cart sized"
oh my god the cabrio version is fucking adorable
and it's going to be called the Froggy in europe!
They look really cute. I wouldn't want to put three children on the backseat of that thing though.
I love how that comment saying that there's affordable electric cars is using "under $45k (Canadian) dollars" as the metric, like in what fucking world is 45k (or like 35k in US dollarydoos) the cutoff for affordability? These techbro dipshits are completely detached from any economic reality.
Techbros are building us a shiny new future where everyone is supposed to have six figure incomes.
Should some few weird individuals fail to earn that due to their own moral shortcomings, they'll just gloss over it and keep pretending everyone are middle class.
But having cars means freedom! Freedom most of the population can't afford without going into debt (another form of great freedom, if you don't have the money, just take out a loan!), and freedom that's actually required so you don't starve to death in this society.
Electric cars will not be affordable until the day you can get an old beater for less than a month's wages.
for real. ive had fuckin 3 cars totaled on me through no fault of my own in the past 10 years. mostly just freak accidents like a branch falls on my car or a wheel goes flying off a car in front of me and absolutely wrecked my front bumper or some boomer rear ends me
no fucking way am i gonna blow more than 5k on a car. 5k is the range where you get decent not terrible used cars. im not going to be paying fucking indefinite rent on a thing that can be gone tomorrow if im unlucky
this is a big reason why i am absolutely not sold with EVs
the days of doing any work on a car yourself were dwindling, but this will the spell the death of it
Used Chevy Bolts have comparable prices to used Toyota Corollas of the same year, have 238 mi range and all of them are getting new batteries under the recall. The SECOND gen Nissan Leaves are even cheaper and don't have the issues that the first gen had. https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/price-trends
The Benben E-Star EV has a range of 301 km (187 miles) and is going for roughly $10k USD, but is only available in China afaik.
