Well said, Dave. I will hang onto my '89 Toyota pickup with those awesome crank windows and new fangled electronic ignition, no AC. It is 30 years old now and in NC I don't even have to get it inspected for safety anymore. (Isn't that strange?) It is hard for cars with lots of little motors and sensors to be affordable for decades. I suspect that Teslas and EVs will be better, more durable, than we are accustomed to with contemporaneous ICE. I just can't afford them.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:45 AM EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > Elon Musk promised us a $30k Tesla. He didn't deliver one. > > Anyone who thinks a $40k car is affordable is clearly not in my socio- > economic class. Teslas are cars for your class, not mine. I've never > paid > that much for a new car and (adjusting for inflation) don't ever intend > to. > Heck, even if I actually had that much money to spare, I STILL wouldn't > spend it on a car, EV or not. > > There are a lot more of us middle-and lower-class folks in the world than > there are of you 10-percenters who can afford $40k+ or $80k+ Teslas. If > Musk honestly wants to improve the world with EVs, he'd darn well better > get > cracking on making some that the rest of us can buy. > > Get that bloody Model 3 down to the price it was supposed to be, $30k. > Then > introduce a couple of cheap and cheerful little basic hatchbacks the size > of, say, a VW Up and a Peugeot 208. Price them around $15-20k and > $20-25k. > > They don't have to go 300 miles on a charge. A 150-200 mile range will be > ample. They don't have to accelerate from 0-60 in 3 seconds, or 6 > seconds. > A lot of us would be just fine with 10 or 12 seconds - or slower. > > We don't need a gigantic touch-screen, either. Heck, give us crank-down > windows and plain mechanical door handles. And skip the autopilot, > please. > Just a nice, normal, decently-made car that happens to have an electric > drivetrain and doesn't cost a year's income or more. > > THOSE are the EVs that will change the world - EVs that almost anyone can > afford. Not big, bloated, heavy, gimmick-laden expensive luxury EVs for a > tiny wealthy minority. > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > > To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my > offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't > mind their own business, because they have no business of their own > to > mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. > > --William Burroughs > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 901-2805 Cell and Text (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Tablet, Google Phone and Text -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20200710/784998f1/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
