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  • The article doesn’t whiff on this, it lays out why it’s too expensive.

    1. The strategy was to replace gas cars with EV 1-to-1 to solve the climate crisis and save the car industry.
    2. Gas cars have gotten bigger over the years because of marketing, bravado, “safety”, and regulation-skirting.
    3. EV-makers have largely bought into that and made all these huge EVs.
    4. Huge EVs require bigger batteries which are more expensive in raw materials and manufacturing.
    5. Huge batteries are heavy and dangerous.
    6. Range anxiety has encouraged even more oversized batteries on already oversized cars.
    7. Huge batteries are the main source of cost, meaning EVs end up being a luxury.

    So, yes–they are too damn expensive, however a vehicle that meets our actual needs wouldn’t be, if it existed in North America.