cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/18375653
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving company
I mean, look at your pricing Ford.
Give me an EV Truck for under 40k and I’ll buy it.
I feel like these stories are all different versions of “Americans buying power has completely collapsed”
Honestly, I have a solid job and I still can’t see myself spending 40k on a car. That’s just such a crazy amount of money to put into something that sits outside in front of my house 50% of the time doing nothing.
I probably will never again be able to buy a new car, because I’m from the generation where 5 year loans are the absolute MAX I’d ever do on a car.
Should’ve made efficient cheap EVs instead of copying Tesla and going for luxury high end EVs
So I decided to look up the base model F150 Lightning.
It has a 360 camera, heated 8-way adjustable power seats, light bars, whatever “Copilot360” is, a 12" touch screen, another 12" screen instead of a gauge cluster, LED steering headlights, a power frunk, and a 2.4 kW inverter.
$65k. I don’t need literally any of those features. “Base model”. Lol.
The point is to pump out ‘luxury’ vehicles with tons of high markup features so that they can earn the most per unit and recoup their investment quickly just like Tesla did. The problem is that this coincides with high interest rates, high inflation, and a market that has a lot more competition than what Tesla faced a decade ago with everyone else jumping on the bandwagon too. We’re essentially witnessing what’s been going on with streaming services over the last few years except with high ticket items.
I feel like the people who buy Fords and the people who want EVs don’t overlap that much.
Still wondering how apartment dwellers are meant to buy (more specifically: charge) EVs.
We have a housing crisis and a push for EVs everywhere at the same time. And yet no major investment in infrastructure – nor anything major to alleviate the housing crisis, either.
