Sounds like a recipe for us to lose our auto industry to China. The instant some upstart puts a $20k simple super reliable EV on the market it’s over, and we will deserve it.
Of course some subset will keep buying the biggest F-9000 Super Chungus they can find while complaining about the price of gas, so maybe that will keep legacy auto alive.
You saw the same thing with microcars or anything especially affordable the past couple years. They only want to sell giant gas guzzling insanely expensive XXL crap and are doing their best to keep affordable shit off the market meanwhile it all sells just fine everywhere else. It's obvious how rigged the whole thing is same with real estate and "automatic price adjustments" that coincidentally biases things in favor of landlords, same for other software that biases things in favor of other colluding fucks like the auto industry so they merely "coincidentally" conspire. It's all total bullshit.
What pisses me off is the fact people somehow think an industry agreeing to use algorithms that only go in their favor and most of all if they all use those algorithms together doesn't count as collusion.
AI generated Chevy Goliath Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7Tq6sRxE4
Chances are if you own a pickup truck you're not using it to drive to the grocer's mart to pick up granny snacks for the senior's home.
You work for a living.
Cars are getting massively cheaper. I don't see why you'd pay $50k for one.
A Bolt or Nissan Leaf with NACS fast charge and a bit better looks will sell pretty well. The Tesla model 3 sells.
I'd love to see one of the typical 4-door 4-cylinder "economy" cars like the Sentra, Corolla, or Civic with an EV transmission.
Why should they sell a Bolt if they don't have it? When you sell the car before it's made, you have to do a lot of customer handholding and the customer holds the dealer responsible when the car doesn't arrive on time. Much better to sell them something that's already on the lot, or at least on a truck on the way.
This is probably more specifically a US thing but the preference for large cars = luxury doesn't appear to be doing any favours to the market.