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You won't buy an EV, you will rent one or hire one.
by noja 10y ago
You won't buy an EV, you will rent one or hire one.
- arethuza 10y agoWhy would the level of renting/hiring be different for EVs than for conventional vehicles?
- maxerickson 10y agoWould the parking situation not be amenable at all to metered chargers? There's a lot of social conventions and what not to work out there, but I doubt any of it would be insurmountable. For overnight charging, a cord that you activate with your phone, with the activation locked to one vehicle, solves many of them.
- istorical 10y agoI think he's referring to the idea that you'll use an Uber-like app (either Uber or if Tesla builds their own then the Tesla version) to order an EV to use it's self driving AI to come pick you up, take you to your destination, then drive off to service other customers. https://newsroom.uber.com/pittsburgh-self-driving-uber/ https://newsroom.uber.com/pittsburgh-self-driving-uber/
- 0xffff2 10y agoI think you're right, but that change in behavior will come (if it comes at all) with self-driving technology, which is entirely orthogonal to EV's.
- gist 10y agoHonestly this is a city/urban thing. It's simply not something that on a large scale people who live in the suburbs on in the country will want to do. My vehicle sits practically outside my door at work and in the garage at home. I like the fact that I can go spur of the minute anytime anywhere and don't have to summon the vehicle or do any planning.
- arethuza 10y agoI don't even think it's a city/urban thing - I live right in the middle of a city and walk to work but the car is for getting out of the city to walk/bike/ski and I can't see a glorified taxi working in those situations.
- ar15saveslives 10y agoI don't want to rent/hire a car, I want to own it.
- enraged_camel 10y agoIf you're in the US this attitude is understandable, but in Europe, not so much.
- vsl 10y agoI'm in Europe and you're wrong. Not everyone lives in a city, we have countryside here too you know.
- HillaryBriss 10y agoDon't Europe's Uber drivers also live in tall apartment buildings?
- balaa 10y agoThe poor will rent, the wealthy will own, same as with real estate.