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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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Don’t forget that there are more countries in the world than just the USA. In most parts of western Europe we pay a lot of taxes on cars with a high co2 and big engines. Just to get a license plate for my M4 cost me 3.500 euro. Because I am a company owner and the M4 is a company car I have to personally pay EVERY MONTH (!) about 650 euro of taxes because of the “advantage” I get from the company car. Enter EV’s and as a company owner located in Belgium an EV is basically free compared to the M4.