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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by brianwawok on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:18AM (#25904084)
Yes.

Cheapest Honda 21k https://automobiles.honda.com/tools/build-and-price#panel-so...

Cheapest Ford $19,995 https://shop.ford.com/showroom/?linktype=brand&intcmp=hp-sho...

Those budget brands generally don’t have dealers here.

Like I said you can maybe find a weird budget dealer somewhere, but it’s well under 1% if sales volume.

Low budget people typically buy 3-15 year old versions of these cars (which is easily under 10k cost).

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by throwaway0a5e on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:22AM (#25904143)
You picked a brand that is a hallmark of upper middle class conspicuous consumption and a brand that doesn't make economy cars (for the North American market) anymore.

The Mitsubishi Mirage, Nissan Versa and Chevy Spark (hatchbacks comparable to the small European cars the GP mentioned) MSRP at under 15k.

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by brianwawok on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:16PM (#25905834)
No one buys those though

https://carsalesbase.com/us-chevrolet-spark/

What % of new car sales are under 20k? 5% maybe?

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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by palmtree3000 on Monday January 25, 2021 @12:22PM (#25905909)
Honda fit? https://automobiles.honda.com/tools/build-and-price-trims?mo... "Starting at $16,190"
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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by brianwawok on Monday January 25, 2021 @01:46PM (#25906980)
Nice, had to dig deeper to find it.

https://carsalesbase.com/us-honda-fit/

Only sold 32k cars in 2020, basically a rounding error compares to overall Honda sales. 260k civics and 200k accords.

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