Were We Wrong About EVs?

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One thing to note, almost all car start ups fail regardless of their propulsion choice. Car companies are almost impossible to pull a profit on let alone a mass producing car maker.

The only reason Chinese EVs are so cheap is due to absolutely ginormous subsidies placed on them. Like we can’t even imagine how much the Chinese government thinks EVs are the lifeline. They aren’t doing anything different. Apart from BYD(which also makes hybrids and conventional vehicles btw) no other brand has been able to make a profit on EVs. There are too many sunken costs and unless they reach a critical mass and market saturation it makes no sense.

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These companies were competing against Tesla when they should have been competing with the Nissan Leaf.

The Fact is: Electric Cars are ok .. but we already have enought. Its the same in ICE World.. there are not 500 ICE Brands (anymore). There were enough with 1000 Flavours but they all died. And the world needs no 500 E-Cars Manufacturers either.

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I think anyone who has watched the car industry for years saw that the extreme hype and market rally around startup EVs a few years ago would be very short lived. Especially when legacy car makers were also working on EVs due to mandates, I did not see EV start ups surviving

The thing most miss about green energy and technology is that they work best as an option, not a replacement. Also, there's something to be said about the new kid on the block having to be luxury. All these manufacturers going upscale... There's a lot of money at the table if someone wants to go back to basics.

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Short Story, making a car company is hard. Making and EV car company is Hard. Go watch the movie Tucker just to get an idea of how hard it is to break into the market. It's insane.

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I LOVE the old Celica GT in the background!

aptera is pretty intriguing. i knew the brand because recently they announces their prototypes etc. Didnt realized they were bankrupted until relatively recently they resurfaced and showing signs.

Probably they were overhyped, and that's it. Sometimes we tend go overboard for what's new, and then calm down: that might be what's happening with electric cars too.

Aptera is still going though?

The materials necessary to build the chargers, motors, etc does not exist in the quantities necessary for everyone to drive electric cars

We really, really need to be going for hybrids first and worrying about EV's down the line when we have better battery technology and more infrastructure. You're not going to swap from ICE to electric overnight, having hybrids to make a bridge between the two makes the transition a lot more realistic and smooth.

The biggest problems: 1. Availability and complexity to charge -- You often need apps, there's issues, or not enough chargers available. Government needs to invest in chargers like they did for gas pumps and infrastructure for petroleum. 2. Home charging is expensive to set up and monitor -- often needing a service upgrade or panel install into a garage or external location. 3. EV manufacturers don't focus on durability and reliability, as well as post-sale support networks for repair and availability of parts. Try and get a dc->dc charge board for pretty much any EV and it'll be insane amounts of money and long wait times. Batteries are often design to NOT be modular and repairable -- any issue requires replacing the battery as a whole unit. 4. EVs often are over-designed, opting for more error prone/catastrophically failing parts vs older designs to "seem newer and hip." Why do I NEED a screen to shift, change basic hvac controls, and my music? Why are there no buttons? 5. EV manufacturers LOCK down ANY communications and ability to diagnose your OWN car. I refuse to buy an EV if I cannot connect an OBD2 / OBD3 scan tool, and see every option/read out and troubleshoot my OWN car without paying $2k a year for the "license" to the software to do so. 6. Every part, software, and design is held tight and no 3rd parties are allowed to make substitute parts, or given specs/help to make them reliably. If my car is $30k and it's $5k to replace a broken infotainment screen because of a small bad cable that missed having a grommet -- and they didn't design it to be modular/gotten to easily -- why would I want that vehicle? Until these are fixed, heavy handedly -- the public won't mass adopt EVs. They just won't be ABLE to even if they like the tech.