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They're going to be electric. I was thinking that less people might be interested in owning due to the different type of maintenance needed, and more expensive

• Jtsummers 5y ago
  Necessity, though. People (in the US) "need" cars due to the way we've built our cities over the past 70 or 80 years (in particular). Even if they don't want electric cars, they'll end up buying them. Just as people who didn't want cars that "have a computer in them" (versus older, almost purely electromechanical, cars) still buy cars today. Maintenance just got outsourced instead of being a weekend activity a few times a year. That trend will continue. Again, the only exceptions (that I see) will be: better public transportation (light rail to bring in residents in the suburbs, buses for inside the city), more on-demand services (I can't get an Uber or Lyft to bring me home, let alone pick me up, and my suburb has something like 20-30k people in it, but 5 miles past where those services will go), automated vehicles (related to on-demand), or movement back towards urban living (which can be served by the preceding + walking/biking more easily). That last one is highly unlikely due to costs, though, at least for a mass migration.