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Originally Posted by NoImDirtyDan
Affordability is one of the main attractions of all electric vehicles imo. All these new electric car companies have 100k+ cars and think they can rival Tesla when the best selling models are sub 50k. Most who can afford these can afford to pay $5 a gallon in gas and whatever maintenance that comes along with traditional ICE vehicles. So unless the consumer wants a "fancy" electric car, I don't need a huge market for these vehicles.
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Just because you can pay $5 doesnt mean you want to.
Many customers do want fancy electric, Taycan's are flying off the shelf. Most of the S class, 5 and 7 Series crowd are looking electric (myself being one). They were never going to be volume.
As for Tesla Model 3 being a sub $50k car, good luck with that. There are almost zero of the $35k base Model 3's out there.
Used ones are going for over $50k.
I am not saying the i4 is a great car but it's not way overpriced considering it's bigger than the Model 3 and the interior isn't made from low-rent materials.