Anyone I ever asks about #ElectricCars , says that they are too #expensive.
I cannot disagree.
What do you think will bring the cost down #mastodon ?
Or do you think OEMs are just taking the opportunity to slow down sales , because they still don’t want to produce more of them ?
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@takeitev Two factors in high EV costs: 1) Battery raw materials. This will come down gradually as more metals are extracted, then more dramatically as batteries begin to be recycled in significant quantities. 2) High demand with little inventory. We can see Tesla adjusting prices to try to keep their waiting list at 3-6 months. most other manufactures are 12-18 months behind. Once there are EVs sitting on dealers lots waiting to be sold, the price will drop.
@takeitev As someone trying to buy 13kWh of Li batteries for my solar power backup system (PG&E likes to turn of my power when it get too hot out), yes, they are as expensive as I think. At the current market rate the battery packs in my Tesla would sell for 2/3rds the total new purchase price of the car. I'm just glad they are harder to extract that Catalytic converters.
@antares what you're paying for couple of cells isn't what an OEM would pay ;)
@antares batteries are not as expensive as you think. They are not the major cost of an EV.
And it is really fault of most OEMs that they didnt prepare whole supply chain properly, the way tesla did.