Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020

Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by konschubert on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:02AM (#25900619)

The car makers are taking a loss/low margin on BEVs sales . Pricing is tuned such that they can sell enough BEVs to meet the regulated fleet efficiency, but no more than that.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by _ph_ on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:41AM (#25900899)

Which only means that the customer is of course taking the price into account when buying new cars. As the production costs of electric cars are coming down considerably (manufacturing scaling, battery costs), the prices are coming down and very soon there will be the same margin as with petrol cars. Never mention Tesla, who don't have the problem of compensating their ICE car emissions.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by fomine3 on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:01PM (#25911147)

EU CAFE regulation virtually increases (not efficient) ICE car price and decreases EV car price.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by tonyedgecombe on Monday January 25, 2021 @06:17AM (#25901951)

I'm not sure that is the whole picture. VW in particular seems to be betting the company on electric.

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