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Originally Posted by 90503
The recent 3rd QTR sales chart shows Camaro outsold the Bolt. Bolt sales were less than the 3rd Qtr last year by 20%.
The demand for EVs is over-hyped. Sure, the manufacturers can plan to make more and more EVs but they won't sell. Anyone who wants one can get a Tesla or a Bolt now, but sales are weak. EV start ups used phony demand and phony pre-sale figures to acquire funding.
EV success relies on tax credit rebates, and the certainty of having no other choice in the coming years with ICE being arbitrarily discontinued.
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Again, the tides will change once the government starts throwing in incentives and tax breaks. They are already offering tax breaks for people to buy EV and have the charging ports added to their homes. People are fickle. At either the slightest inconvenience or the slightest incentive most people will budge. All they'll have to do is keep increasing the price of gas to where none of us can afford it. I already paid $4.50 a gallon a few months ago for premium gas in my motorcycle. It costed me $90 to fill up my Ram truck. I can afford that. Can some dude with a family of 4 and a house and expenses afford that? What about when it shoots up to $5, $6, $7 a gallon? Even IF you can afford it, at what point will people look over the costs and determine that it is not worth it? LOL!! At $6 a gallon a ZL1 will cost over $100 a tank. Half a tank will be over $50. How long will that last? And all for what? That will be one expensive ride. And again, what happens when you can't even get the gas for your vehicle?
And none of this even matters because some states have already banned the sale of gas vehicles by 2035. Other states will follow. And then they'll make it illegal to even operate a gas powered vehicle on public roads. So it doesn't matter what the public thinks or wants. The reality is that the government has already decided and there is no turning back.