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All cars are a stupid choice compared to a motorcycle, subway or taking a bus... The average car sold in the USA is about $35,000. You can buy an EV for that a

• Erudite_Genius 7y ago
  You can buy a very nice used car for less than $6,000 all day long, and (if you're still indoctrinated to believe the lie of "carbon dioxide = global heat") has a much SMALLER impact on carbon emissions than ANY new EV. Chinese crap is just that... CRAP. The Chinese don't care about durability one iota, their entire culture is set up to be cheap and disposable. The reason Chinese gas cars are never sold in the U.S. is because they don't meet even the most lax of safety standards. Get into what would be a "fender-bender" in an American car, and the Chinese car will fold up like a bad hand of poker. The REASON that EVs are expensive is because, at least for now, they use rare earth minerals to power them (not to mention the existence of labor unions and burdensome federal regulations on the auto industry driving costs up). Once graphene ultra-capacitors are perfected, you won't need to build a one-ton battery pack made of toxic minerals, so the cost will drop faster than Tesla sales after their government bribes to consumers ran out. Tesla cars are LUXURY TOYS only afforded by the very wealthy. Teslas are marketed to BMW M5 shoppers... NOT Toyota Camry shoppers. (Because a Toyota Camry beats every Tesla in every possible measure except raw acceleration, including purchase cost, running cost, and even carbon impact for the first 2 years. 5 years if you buy used.)