On 8 Nov 2014 at 0:26, brucedp5 via EV wrote: > The newswire below shows one of many China made EVs but this (USD$10k) one > looks impressive for the price .....
I'm not so sure I agree with that. > Price including all green-car subsidies starts at 59.800 yuan and ends > at 64.800 yuan. Price without subsidies would start at a hefty 150.000 > yuan, making absolutely sure nobody would buy one. If it were exported to the US, I can't imagine that we'd get the Chinese subsidies. At current exchange rates, 150k yuan is about $24500. By the time it got to the US, with all the extra hardware required to meed our safety and convenience requirements, I guarantee that the price would be even higher. It appears to me that Chery are setting the unsubsidized price as high as they dare - and then some. I suspect that many of the automakers are doing this - setting their list prices so that the "after subsidy" price is almost affordable - rather than setting their prices based on what it actually costs to manufacture the EV. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
