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.