More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.

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    5 months ago

    You’re not wrong, but in fairness the headline says EVs are becoming affordable, not that they are affordable.

    he’s right; brand new ev’s go for about $10k outside the unites states; they’re already affordable but big tariffs are being employed to discourage buying them.

    curiously, even the 100% american tariff still makes these ev’s more affordable than anything in that article and i’m wondering what’s going to happen once they start building them in mexico (ie nafta).

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      5 months ago

      They don’t in Australia they’re still 50k min. We give massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies too

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        5 months ago

        they’re selling out so fast that australia hasn’t gotten many yet.

        interestingly australia might be the only western country to get them since they have a free trade agreement with china while the united states and europe are putting extremely hefty tariffs on them to protect their own respective automotive industries.