Because people can’t afford them.
In the US, EVs are still in the upper high end of car prices.
I make $50k a year. Most Americans make less than I do. Mid range or not, that’s not in reach for most people.
Nonsense. If you bring home more than $350 per week, then you can get up to $30,000 in credit for only one dime down.
It’s a crime to pay more than a dime.
My man, a mid range car should be priced at like 20-30k Canadian, not 40k us which is like 55k canadian
People seem to think “mid range” means “affordable to the average person”.
Look at the range of prices for new vehicles. The middle is very expensive.
How many new cars are available in Canada for 10-20k?
The answer is only two.
Your “mid range”, is really the floor for new cars.
That’s because a brand new one is way too expensive for most people, and a used one is still expensive and could have half the range left in the batteries, you have no idea.
We need an EV mini wagon, like mid-80s Nissan Maxima wagon sized, and battery tech needs to get cheaper.
All the car manufacturers want to build giant boats now, as big as can possibly fit on the road and in parking spaces, because of their addiction to profit margins.
Yes, somehow the American car buyer has been bamboozled into thinking that a bigger car is “luxury” and a smaller car is somehow “lower end,” so automakers price their larger cars higher even though the physical size has very little to do with the actual manufacturing cost.
Also the car will report its expected range based on battery health, it doesn’t just naively assume the battery is perfect
Restoring some fuel economy (increasing range) to a used ICE car can be as simple as replacing spark plugs and cleaning fuel injectors. Even if you’re not into doing that work yourself, that’s not prohibitively expensive.
Doing the same for an EV entails replacing the entire EV battery, which is prohibitively expensive, and which a shadetree mechanic would be hard-pressed to do themselves.
I take your point on individual maintenance, but that can also apply to EVs. But statistics show that in general ICE cars degrade faster than EVs
Ngl I love my minivan. I can cart my wife, kids, and niblings…or a stack of 4x8 plywood and some 12ft linear boards.
I do wish station wagons were back though. The car would be so much better with a lower center of gravity.
I guess being so tall has the benefit of being easy to get in and out of, especially the third row…but hear me out…what ever happened to rear-facing third rows?
called no one makes enough to buy one and our leaders refuse to make companies pay living wages so we could afford one
plus the electric vehicle infrastructure is not government run and not robust enough to handle a full transition
I’m not shying away, they’re just too expensive