The new standards are part of a broad push to get more Americans into electric vehicles, and reduce the environmental cost of driving.

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    6 months ago

    American vendors aren’t producing more EVs because EVs don’t have mass appeal. See the currently tanking EV market and crashing prices on these vehicles. The market clearly cannot bear mass adoption of EVs at this time because the buyers for all those EVs we were making don’t exist.

    Why? A mix of reasons. Poor infrastructure. Range anxiety in a car-centric nation. Total incompatibility with some lifestyles like apartment living at a place without a charger.

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      Half of all EVs cost >$54,000. Give us the $10,000 Chinese ones and they’ll sell like hotcakes.

      When there’s that big of a difference in price, people can afford to put in chargers or take extra steps to make it work.

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      American vendors aren’t producing more EVs because EVs don’t have mass appeal

      You’ve got that backwards: there’s less people buying American EVs than there should because there aren’t enough and cheap enough options from American companies.

      Just about every other car maker on the planet has several popular EVs on offer, though, so they’re shooting themselves in the foot long term to avoid the expense of pivoting short term.

      the market clearly cannot bear mass adoption of EVs at this time

      Again, you’re wrong. I suspect you’re taking the bad build quality of Teslas specifically beginning to hurt their sales as a sign that all EVs are unviable. That’s not reality.

      the buyers for all those EVs we were making don’t exist.

      Again, other way around: people WANT EVs, but American companies are hardly making any good ones available. Almost all other car makers are, though, at increasingly competitive prices too.