1. That Audi is gorgeous.
2. I think higher-end brands such as that will definitely have an easier time selling these cars. People that can afford a $140K car often also have houses and can have the garage wired for the proper voltage to charge (if it isn't already). People like me that can afford a 20K car will be going for an off-lease Ford Maverick instead. People in my income bracket also often live in apartments and have no real manner to charge electric cars (we run an extension cord out of our bedroom window to charge our plug in Prius). Until chargers are more prevalent, it'll be more difficult for folks like me to own and charge an EV.
3. I think in the next 5 years we're going to see a lot of new EVs coming out. Perhaps we'll see some more affordable ones? I've read that Elon Musk has commented several times that he'd like to do a cheaper Tesla, set below the model 3.
Battery prices are dropping, volumes are going up. EVs are going to drop in price.
EV2go is aiming at the "can't charge at home" demographic. On-street charging is already a thing, they're also addressing places you'd be going anyway like malls and movie theaters (remember those?). It'll take a while to get that infrastructure built up but of course it'll take a while for the fleet to change to EV even if not a single ICE car is sold after today.
Man Audi is pulling all the stops in looks. It's not shocking all the luxury makers are going electric.
In reply to infinitenexus :
Yeah supposedly there's a model 2 in the works- a small hatch that he claims will be less than ~$25K but that depends on the 4680 cell.
"Cheapening" EVs is going to be very interesting in the coming years, since so much revolves around how you build cells, what chemistries you use and how you cool them.
There has to be a "but" or an "except in this case" built in there somehow. It just seems like corporate suicide to me.
Remind me to check in 2028 if this happened.
Audi I can see. Now if VW did this that would be a game changer and most likely kill them as a brand.
I do a ton of work for housing authority and apartment complex's and the like. I also do lots of work in the urban areas of the city of Boston where the "regular" folks live. Like Dorchester or Roxbury MA. There is no way they can put the infrastructure in place in these locations to alow for electric cars. It will just not work.
This is a typical street: (I am actually working on a building one block over just like these)
If they do install chargers when the local's figuar out that there is copper in the cables of the chargers those will be stolen.
Electric cars are only going to work for the upper-middle class. For those "nice" sleepy towns west of Boston where the median income is over 100K.
Instead of pounding forward with this stuff more needs to be done to facilitate better safer and affordable transportation for the urban areas around citys. You talk electric vehicles to people in these locations and they think you are a complete idiot and they get aggravated as they feel like they re getting left behind. Billions in electric car development for the afluent privileged few being touted as the game changer for all when in fact it really will only work for a very specific segment of the population. I am not a huge fan of linkage type funding but I think that for every dollar that is given by the state and feds to people as rebates for there electric car purchase an equal amount needs to be invested in public transportation.
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HalfDork
6/18/21 1:09 p.m.
That seems like a really really fast change over. I doubt they have the will to hit that.
I'll admit to being intrigued enough by the looks of the Taycan (especially the Cross Turismo) and the Audi GT that I've been considering them as (much, much, much) more practical replacements for the i8.
They are heavy though. I'd seen the numbers, but on viewing some assembly videos on YouTube where the massive size of the brakes is apparent, I just don't know if I'm ready to accept a "sporty" 5,000 pound vehicle.
I'm going to miss the warm amber glow of an Audi CEL. Coolant temperature sensor and coil pack manufacturers are going to be in trouble.
