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They have an electric suv under $20k usd
Sure, it’s probably gonna last like a mid-90’s Kia, but for the price it’s pretty nice.
At the rate of industrial investment into this tech coupled with some places punishing gas cars, a cheap car that spans the gap from now until affoedable and better EVs is the perfect prescription, not to mention we havent stopepd having some form or financial crises since covid.
The solid state batteries that seem to be clearly on the verge of mass production within the next few years are going to make everything they're making now horribly obsolete. I've been considering a EV for my next vehicle and will definitely be waiting now.
People have been saying that for years. They could well still be 10 years out since we've only recently gotten them working on test benches. I'm not going to keep burning gas in the meantime.
Looking at how most of the news about that are coming from Toyota at the moment and Toyota happens to have a horrible line up of EVs but a very profitable lineup of ICE cars I'm sceptical. I think they are just trying to get people to buy another round of oil burners.
I've got two compact electric cars since 2020, while everyone's waiting for the next big thing I've already been driving around mainly using electricity from my roof 🤷
While researching Chinese EVs I came across articles about abandoned EVs, the article claimed it was because they were made obsolete (they have roughly 100 mile range or less) so they were abandoned for the newer cheaper models with 3-5x that range, that problem is probably gong to be a bigger one to tackle than Chinese EV longevity, which supposedly aims for roughly 200,000km lifecycle which is 125k miles (average ice car has a lifespan of 130k miles). It also showed me how close to production those batteries you are talking about are, there's a bold claim that the battery could be good for 2 million kilometers, if it's even on the same order of magnitude of that, it would make so many EVs 'obsolete'.
I've seen so much EV vapourware come and go over the years, I'm extremely sceptical about any new technology like this.
I do sincerely hope it comes through though, range and charging speed are very much the limiting factors for EV tech right now.