Canada @lemmy.ca booja @booja.ca 3mo ago

'Tall order to ask the average Canadian': EVs are twice as hard to sell today

financialpost.com 'Tall order to ask the average Canadian': EVs are twice as hard to sell today

Canada’s goal of ensuring that at least 20% of new vehicles sold by 2026 are electric seems to be in jeopardy as demand slows. Find out more

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Wait, you mean middle- and lower-class Canadians--who are most people--aren't buying cars?

Could it be that they can't afford them, and even if they could, they can't charge them at home because they don't own a home?

Car makers took the EV revolution as a sequel to the SUV revolution: a way to boost average margin per unit, or rather, as a way to squeeze more juice. Unfortunately, real estate investors and Galen Weston have already squeezed our collective lemons.
If ford built an electric version of the 2005-2010 Ranger I would buy it today. It's not even a new idea, they made electric Rangers around 2000 but they had lead acid batteries so the range was only 150km.

I want a PRACTICAL pickup, not a god damned $61K, 5 seat, electric minivan with 4 foot trunk.
- Cargo vans are more practical than pick up trucks for 95% of uses. Modern trucks are more like status symbols than work horses.
  
  Totally, you can fit a hell of a lot more sheet material into a cargo van than a modern pickup. Even minivans with fold down seats have more cargo space than a Ram with 4x5.5 box.
  
  They're heavier than pickups and use more fuel, and are less useful because you share the cab with your cargo.
- Alpha motors was hopeful to fill this void. Most likely will never come out though
Odd, tried to go look at an EV9 and was told there was over a year wait and no model to look at. That is even before getting into it being far more than I want to spend.
"EVs are twice as hard to sell today" says industry that has done everything except make cars with prices at $15000 or less

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