On 10 Jul 2020 at 23:47, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > a report by JATO Dynamics shows that an all-electric car priced at $1 > in 2011 would now cost $0.52 in China, but $1.42 in Europe and $1.55 in > the US.
This is interesting, and despite the falling costs in China, disappointing if true. We are headed in the wrong direction. I wonder, does the report adjust for inflation? More importantly, is it comparing equivalent EVs? In most cases the batteries are larger, even in similar models, and the range is much better. For example, Nissan and Renault have more than doubled the size of the batteries in the Leaf and Zoe since they introduced the cars in 2011 and 2012. Also, the automakers (surprise, surprise) seem to be introducing larger and larger EVs every year. Maybe the problem is that they've taken note of Tesla's success in courting rich folks as customers. Instead of aiming for other less well-healed buyers, they'd rather compete for Tesla's. That way they sell fewer vehicles, but they make more profit on each. Ford, GM, and Chrysler have lots of experience with that strategy here in the US. They've sold small cars grudgingly, and only because of the CAFE requirements. They've never offered us their smallest, most affordable, most efficient vehicles. Those they sent to other countries where incomes are lower, fuel is more expensive, streets are narrower, and parking is more of a challenge. In recent decades they've even started to phase out everything except trucks and SUVs for the US. I suspect that if you subjected ICEVs to a similar analysis, you'd see similar cost increases, at least in US and EU. China, I'm not so sure about. That would be interesting to read. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Thou shalt not send me any thing which says unto thee, "send this to all thou knowest." Neither shalt thou send me any spam, lest I smite thee. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
