Personally my frustration is that they’re largely kinda luxury vehicles, which makes sense given they’re new, but I think they need to get cheaper going forward. And the cheap options like the leaf need to be better (the leaf’s lack of thermal management for the battery means the battery degrades massively over the car’s lifespan)
Personally my frustration is that they’re largely kinda luxury vehicles
They’re luxury vehicle priced with shitty interiors. The $20k Chevy Trax has a better designed interior than a lot of these techno-junk spartan EVs.
If you compare the $40k or $50k EVs against similarly priced $50k luxury vehicles, its night and day, no where damn close. At the $50k price, you better have massage chairs (Lincoln), or other kinds of luxury features (Volvo’s built-in child booster seats, etc. etc.) that make your interior stand out.
Every EV is the same shitty design. Remove useful features from the driver, and replace them with a 10-inch iPad like screen and pretend that touch controls are fine. Look, we’re all adults here, we all know that capacitive touch screens are cheaper than buttons now. Its 2024, the costs of various design elements are well known. They’re cheapening the interior trying and trying to sell it as “tech”.
A relatively short drive in the US following the most built up and industrialized corridor in the country isn’t representative of viability. Hell just the 4 hour drive between my house in Oklahoma and Amarillo Texas gives me range anxiety in my gas powered Ford Focus due to how carefully I need to plan fuel stops to make it. Meanwhile going from one side of Texas to the other is the same distance as Boston to Florence SC; this country is absolutely huge.
What constitutes “good enough”? I drove my EV from Boston to South Carolina and back without any issues at all.
Personally my frustration is that they’re largely kinda luxury vehicles, which makes sense given they’re new, but I think they need to get cheaper going forward. And the cheap options like the leaf need to be better (the leaf’s lack of thermal management for the battery means the battery degrades massively over the car’s lifespan)
They’re luxury vehicle priced with shitty interiors. The $20k Chevy Trax has a better designed interior than a lot of these techno-junk spartan EVs.
If you compare the $40k or $50k EVs against similarly priced $50k luxury vehicles, its night and day, no where damn close. At the $50k price, you better have massage chairs (Lincoln), or other kinds of luxury features (Volvo’s built-in child booster seats, etc. etc.) that make your interior stand out.
Every EV is the same shitty design. Remove useful features from the driver, and replace them with a 10-inch iPad like screen and pretend that touch controls are fine. Look, we’re all adults here, we all know that capacitive touch screens are cheaper than buttons now. Its 2024, the costs of various design elements are well known. They’re cheapening the interior trying and trying to sell it as “tech”.
A relatively short drive in the US following the most built up and industrialized corridor in the country isn’t representative of viability. Hell just the 4 hour drive between my house in Oklahoma and Amarillo Texas gives me range anxiety in my gas powered Ford Focus due to how carefully I need to plan fuel stops to make it. Meanwhile going from one side of Texas to the other is the same distance as Boston to Florence SC; this country is absolutely huge.