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I hope she is right, and in a way she may be. The main reason is how expensive it is to buy a car, insure and maintain a car in the US. Insurance rates in man
by jmclnx 2y ago
I hope she is right, and in a way she may be. The main reason is how expensive it is to buy a car, insure and maintain a car in the US.
Insurance rates in many places are raising a lot, people blame the expense of repairing EVs and some blame tracking of people's driving habits via many internet connected autos.
With new proposed mandatory "dodads" like automatic breaking, rear cameras I can see Auto prices will continue to increase.
And in cities you can have parking fees, the slow elimination of parking on the street, never mind rent and housing costs. Something will need to give.
So the end result for people in cities, stop using a car and rely on Public Transportation, Bicycling, Walking and things like uber and taxis.
- kkfx 2y agoWell... About repairing I've conducted a very casual and limited assessments between friends, colleagues, families etc on ICE vs BEV MTBF and while absolutely not statistically meaningful the result is that even with the crappy crapload of crapware BEV have they are already more reliable than ICE counterparts. So well, repairing in case of incidents will be more expensive, but in current usage they tend to fail less. About costs: if you look at China or India cheap-but-reasonable BEV (400km/250miles) well, they seems not to be more and more expensive but less and less. It's here in the west that, perhaps thanks to decades of destruction of substantial research and development "to maximize profits", we see price going higher and higher while we resell more and more Chinese stuff rebranded. Long story short: it's here that the Green tech fail, not all other the world. As a result people in cities became more and more poor to a point they simply can't own a car anymore. It's not a "nice evolution thanks to" but a "forced regression".