When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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That's true. On the other hand, I remember when the Tesla Model Y LR came out and was $66k and now can be purchased for $39k w/tax credit. It was also the best selling car in the world last year. So you never know. Also keep in mind that Tesla is averaging $8,700 profit per vehicle. I'm going to take a wild guess that the others are not.
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The model X can easily get over $100k with options
Had a guy buy a corvette from me one time, wrote a check for it. Said that if you were concerned with the payment on a $100k car, its not the car for you. Fun fact, he financed it with his own credit union, and it was repo-ed 6 months later
I went to the Iowa car show last week and they had a Jeep Grand Wagoneer for $120k. I about fell over.
Profit seems to be less the issue. The issue is price people are willing to pay. If these products keep being bought at high prices as luxury items, with good sales numbers, then they will continued to be priced as such. There's no reason to drop the price on something that sells well at high margin -- would be bad business to do so.
If people want the prices of cars (not just EVs, again) to go down, they need to stop buying them at higher and higher prices.
100%. Plus they have little incentive to make sub $30k cars.
Imagine living somewhere “typical” gas price is $5.20 with spikes up to $7 and tell me that 13mpg vehicle is not wildly more absurd than nearly every EV.
Yet nobody ever gets freaked out about literally burning that cash.
They way they run their companies.Gee, if only there was an article comparing them.
Elmo has always lied about range and milage and FSD, and the CT, and the roadster and on and on and on.
Rivian doesn't operate that way.
Here's the thing, range depends on a ton of factors. Temp, speed, wind etc.
You'll never hit the EPA range in a Tesla, ever.
I have on my Rivian multiple times.
But nice try.
EV RANGE TEST: 2022 Rivian R1S Beats EPA Estimate on All-Terrain Tires | Edmunds
How good can a 3.5-ton SUV really be? If it's an electric SUV with a Rivian badge, the answer is very good indeed. We range-tested a quad-motor R1S with all-terrain tires and it blew the EPA estimate out of the water. Oh yeah, and it sprinted to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds. Read on for all the details.
www.edmunds.com
This is why I look at the actual reviews, like the one that shows this in a real world scenario.
But you are correct, when I've driven my wifes MY, I've never gotten 300+ miles of range. It may have something to do with me driving 80+ mph. I also don't get 20mpg in my Kia compared to the 25mpg sticker.
