Americans: please give us an affordable, practical, small EV with decent range
American car companies: here’s a $70,000 EV truck that weighs 6 tons lol
<zero EV trucks are sold>
American car companies: wow americans aren’t ready for EVs
@sohan give me tiny electric truck plz. I just want to haul some dirt or wood and not burn 50 gallons of gas and risk running over a child because I don’t see them
@shuttersparks @christa @sohan They're turning the road into an arms race and don't even understand they're the problem. No wonder the US have the highest number of road deaths in the developed world.
@Giliell @christa @sohan Yes, and it's a spiral that's hard to reverse.
People know that accident statistics clearly show that the heavier vehicle usually wins in an accident. And makers of SUVs emphasize this, pointing out the thickness of the doors and how many layers of steel there are, etc. My friend's Hyundai Palisade SUV is like that. She has a 1 year old insulated in a crash-proof child seat in the middle of the vehicle and the doors are like a foot thick. It's a huge SUV yet passenger space is cramped because of all the armor around you. This is going to be difficult to undo because people want to protect themselves and their children, and they're driven by fear. Economical operation isn't even part of the equation.
@shuttersparks @christa @sohan When it comes to cars, people's brains get turned off. I should know, I'm German.