For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overtook diesel

Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by wsc981 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:50AM (#25220446)

I don't think many people in Europe really prefer SUVs, perhaps it's just the best type of electric car that is on offer or maybe the one with the biggest subsidies.

Of course I speak from my point of view as someone who was raised in The Netherlands. In The Netherlands I never saw many SUVs on the road.

Elon Musk is actually contemplating [0] to produce smaller EVs for the European market and I think those could become very popular indeed. Smaller cars are generally just nicer to use in compact crowded cities.

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[0] https://electrek.co/2020/11/24/elon-musk-tesla-hatchback-ele...

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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by simias on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:10AM (#25220625)

>I don't think many people in Europe really prefer SUV

Oh I think you're wrong, there's definitely a significant market for people who prefer SUVs, electric or not. This is not new. After all most of these European urban SUV are really neither S or U, they're just SUV shaped.

I remember watching a French TV show about cars maybe 15 years ago where they were talking about the growing popularity of SUVs, and back then diesel was the norm.

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Re:For the first time in Europe, registrations for EVs overt... by dzhiurgis on Thursday November 26, 2020 @04:00PM (#25223496)

There's 10s of small EV's you can already buy for nearly half price of Model 3 in EU.

They probably can make it cheap enough, especially if it's made in EU to skirt tariffs, but by then there will 100s of competitors.

Right now you can already buy 35k euro SUV when Model Y is something like 60k.

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