I'm not sure what's your rejoinder is supposedly about. The article is specifically about Europe's (hopeful) ban of gas engines, and one of the members asking for an exemption for its home-grown luxury brands.

Tesla has nothing to do with it.

> An exception for the rich people to be able to ignore what's best for humanity while we ask all the regular people to make sacrifices.

So at the moment it is the regular people are driving around in electic cars and the rich in the gas cars ... no and if there is a class war at work it is the other way round.

At this moment the ev revolution is being driven by the rich, this will trickle down over time naturally, but the choice to go electric means paying more. Tesla dont have a comparable product but VW do, pretty consistntly $10,000 more for electric. If 'regular' people are making sacrifices as the previous person suggested it is by spending so much more on a car (or lease) and not eating or being broke, because it is the only way they are participating at the moment.

You do realize pretty much all car manufacturers either are already selling electric cars or are working feverishly on designing one?

Tesla is a luxury brand. China produces a lot of electric cars, some of the cheaper models are sold for under $5000.

They will most definitely eventually fill the used car market.

Will they? Where I live even hybrids don’t do well at all in the used market, replacing the battery is a huge cost

Where I live (Finland) hybrids on the other hand retain their value the best, with diesels being the worst. The fuel savings are so significant that people do flock to them.