Electric cars are good for you, save money on gas
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And that's for a plug-in hybrid, which is a bigger battery than a hybrid but much smaller than an EV. I hope the dealership bought him dinner first.
e: https://backthetruckup.com/30000-invoice-is-real/
So their excuse is the battery is "a dinosaur." It's a 2012, way to stick it to the critics that say EVs are like iphones.
e2: So I did some back of the napkin math. If he'd bought a Chevy Malibu instead he would have, in the absolute worst case, spent $13,000 on gas. Considering his car is so low mileage I'm going to assume he used very little gas and mostly used the battery, so at best he spent $2,000 on electricity. So he spent about $15,000 more originally and then saved $11,000 but then paid $30,000, which to be fair should have totaled the car instead (it's like an iphone after all). $34,000 in the hole, and that's best case; I'm assuming all city miles, only using the battery and cheap electricity. Wow.
The long term plan is to force people to buy electric cars. I mean in the likely case that technology fails to improve to the point where people prefer them before the government decides to mandate it.
In fact re technology, I suspect that the problems of electricity generation and transmission won't be solved in time, either.
And then turn your cars off if your social credit score is too low.
It's all about control. They don't want you to be independent in travel, income, or anything else.
The government is the enemy of free people.
Why bother with that step when you can have them driven to prison instead of work? It's where they'd end up anyway after being unable to pay to survive.
Just have it glitch while driving over a bridge.
Also have the box record that it was due to the customer's manual control override, they did it themselves.
And when your EV breaks down and you can't afford to fix it they'll say "Just ride the bus! Get an electric bicycle!"
The long term plan is to force everyone who isn't the "elite" to sit in the pod, eat the bugs, and consume anti-social media for all of their free time. There's no need for the goyim cattle to go anywhere except their designated workplace (for the lucky 50% that still at least have a job), and that can easily be handled by buses.
Like the last meal before execution.
It's not an EV, it's a hybrid. Which is part of the problem - while it's completely reasonable to demand some level of backwards compatibility in the form factor, inputs and outputs of your company's batteries even as the technology improves and you put out new models of vehicle, a 16 kWh hybrid battery and a 60 kWh all-electric battery are never going to be compatible, and Chevrolet has stopped making the hybrids.
Why are the batteries not just a standard shape? Why do I care if Duracell stop making AA ones I can buy them from Energizer instead.
<sub>I know why and this is rhetorical.</sub>
The battery pack is likely full of 18650-type cells, those are standard shape. Manufacturers get compatibility and you get a $30k bill.
PHEVs are a type of EV and based on the mileage the owner probably used it as more of an EV with a range extender than as a hybrid. I think the point still stands that these cars are disposable if companies don't commit to long term battery support even if the technology changes. I can have a remanufactured ecotec on my doorstep in a few days if my 18 year old car's engine dies and I'm not sure it would be worth it to do an engine swap but if I did I could probably drive the car another 18 years.
It may be a dinosaur, but when you buy a car that expensive, 10 years is not "a dinosaur".
Maybe that one is, but say I buy an electric car tomorrow. What is to say in a number of years everything moves on to some new fancy battery style or whatever and suddenly mine is a "dinosaur" after only 8 years or something. This does not give me a good feeling of buying an electric car now unless there have been many years of having battery replacements that dont' total the car just cause "my car is a bit old."
Which in the scheme of cars, 10 years is not even that old..... dang...