A lot of people can't drop $40k on a car, but they can spend $25k up front and another $15k over the life of the car.
I think the major changeover will be when I can buy the equivalent of a Honda Accord, but fully electric, and for the same price.
The Tesla Model 3 was supposed to be that, but in reality, it still costs more.
Unless you’re referring to the psychological sticker shock only and not the actual cash flow implications.
I think if Tesla had better leasing, you'd see way more of them
Fiat-Chrysler did it with the 500e, and back in the day the big 3 did it with subsidized Cavaliers and Escorts.
All of this is only happening because of the pressure from EU regulators.
To see how these norms are effectively impossible to meet with ICEs, note that these translate to fuel efficiency of 4, 3, and 2 liters/100 km, or for American folks, 58, 78, and 117 mpg respectively.
€23.000 ID.3 vs €20.000 ICE Golf in Germany, from what I understand the Golf is one of the best selling cars in Europe. Also I believe many European countries exempt or greatly reduce emissions taxes on EVs, so that difference could probably be made up quickly.
Might even be worse we're on the verge of the big global warming panic. At the same time the current pandemic has been showing that the world under a semi command economy is more resilient than neoliberals gaslighted everyone into believing. And thus governments have a lot more wiggle room than they thought. One might find that the resale value of your ICE car is zero.
EVs are better cars for the majority of people. Once drive out price unequivocally beats ICE, EV adoption will skyrocket.
Electric cars are vastly more than just a battery and electric motor. Regenerative breaking, power distribution, heat management, possibly a simple transmission etc etc. The amount of innovation in this space dwarfs what’s happening in the IC space because the problems are so new.
EV’s hit 2.5% of total sales in 2019. 2020 is likely going to be odd, but scaling production still seems to be the bottleneck.
So sure the Roadster can hold what, 6 gallons? Like an econo-box. And weighs 2 1/2 - 3 tons. Much of that in battery.
Yes, weight is still the big issue.
For the most extreme comparison, a Bugatti Chiron gets an EPA 11 MPG so the roadster is arguably the equivalent of a 56 gallon fuel tank where the Chiron is stuck with 26 gallons.
PS: A better comparison would be a similar ~200,000$ two seater but none of them are optimized for fuel efficiency.
A bit of a tangent but it'll be interesting to see what effect an all electric vehicle future has on the design of roadways, bridges, etc. I imagine that many things will need to be rebuilt to handle the additional load.
Raising the average vehicle weight from 1.5 to 3 tons will definitely have an effect.
I would guess electric cars are still negligible in that metric, though.
Charge infrastructure is expanding rapidly due to current rates of adoption which further makes electric cars more appealing every year.