| ▲ | storus 4 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
EVs are still a bit underwhelming wrt range - ideally either 450miles/700km or 5 minute 20->80% recharge at an acceptable price (35k EUR) should be the norm. For cities it doesn't matter but for longer vacation trips it's a must, nobody wants to waste 3 hours on a 1100km trip recharging. Chinese EVs might be able to deliver it at this price point (BYD) but EU adds additional (up to) 45% in extra fees to penalize Chinese EV makers and to prevent collapse of EU car makers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Gud 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honest question, how often do you drive 1100km? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | toomuchtodo 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1 in 4 vehicles sold globally last year were EVs, and they are >50% of the monthly sales in China, the largest market in the world. EVs are mostly solved, even though they will continue to rapidly improve, both range and charging infrastructure. Norway is at ~100% monthly EV sales, other countries will get there eventually. Importantly, we should expect to go faster as EV sales reach a point where combustion sales have declined to a level where they can no longer support combustion vehicle manufacturers as a going concern. Peak global combustion auto sales occurred in 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459145 (citations) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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