New Electric Vehicle Completely Bombs, Could Only Make It 70 Miles Driving at Highway Speeds. Aaaaaannnnnnnddddd, we have another winner in the EV race to the bottom!
New Electric Vehicle Completely Bombs, Could Only Make It 70 Miles Driving at Highway Speeds. Aaaaaannnnnnnddddd, we have another winner in the EV race to the bottom!
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The article mentioned the Lucid EV, which gets an impressive 400+ per charge. Equally impressive (in a breathtaking perverse sort of way) is the price tag. It starts at $154,000.
I'll get right on that.
LOL. You can buy an awful lot of gasoline for $154,000. Enough to take you back and forth nonstop across the United States for the rest of your life.
https://www.westernjournal.com/journalists-tow-camper-behind-electric-truck-end-stunning-failure-make-85-miles/
$33,500 for a car that only goes 70 miles? And if you want AC what do you get? 40 or 50 miles? It's ridiculous. Only a moron would buy that pig in a poke.
I seldom drive. I have one car for around town or trips, one for basically off-roading. My wife has a hybrid.
The hybrid does about 28 MPG on the highway, and the one for trips does about 27 MPG on the highway if I keep my foot out of the radiator. (380 HP Twin-Turbo V-6). The hybrid only has an advantage around town or in stop-and-go traffic. If you have the a/c on it doesn't run on the electric motor much.
The one I off-road with has a 220 HP V-8, gets about 10-12 around town. The most I've gotten on the highway was 19 MPG. Usually, it's about 14-17 MPG.
For $35k (or more) I can buy a lot of gasoline, even at today's prices.
Plus you don't have to worry about the car suddenly stopping in the middle of the road and telling you it needs new batteries for ten or twenty thousand dollars. I drive a Lincoln Continental that was our primary trip car until we bought something newer and better last year. Now that's our primary trip car. I will keep using the Lincoln until I decide it's no longer worth the trouble. The thing about good old gasoline cars is I know almost exactly how much longer I will get out of that Lincoln. It's not going to suddenly give me a bad day where I need to fork out ten or twenty thousand dollars.
You don't need to wait hours for a charge, either.