It's the SOS decade after decade. Marketing used by corporations to convince Americans that they are losers if they don't have bigger and more expensive SUV's or pickup trucks. Bigger = more profit for the car manufacturers. And people are swayed by the marketing. Nobody wants to be a loser
Unintended consequences of Cafe mpg rules. Look it up, and you'll see.
Now if EV makers were really in it to get everyone an EV they would have started with cheaper EVs. But they started at the high end. And the very high end. And most that got the EV credits already had money to purchase them without the credits.
So now they are going to bring value EVs to the masses supposedly. They've squeezed as much as they can from the high end and the market is drying up a little. So the focus will be on lower profit per unit and selling more units. It's a shell game. It took years for Tesla to hit the low cost number he put out there for the model 3. And it only lasted for a week or so before getting bumped up again.
It is a good time to buy a used Tesla from Hertz. As they are selling them low enough to get a $4k credit for buying a used EV under a certain amount in some cases.
Carla, we might have the money to do it. But the disruption would be terrible for our economy. They have been working on the freeway by my place for almost 4 years to expand and add two more lanes. This is a stretch of roughly five miles. They have about a year more before it's finished. That's 2 lanes for 5 miles.
And when they're done with that, they will be working on about 5 to 7 miles to the east. That'll take 3-4 years.
It's been extremely disruptive and has cost a lot of money to businesses and people trying to get to work on time. Unplanned closures, unexpected delays, and even when it's open it's a bottleneck. Every single time I leave my place I check maps for traffic. Because it affects the surface streets as well.
2 lanes. 5 miles of freeway. 4+ years of madness. All for 2 toll lanes I'll never use. I live very close to the freeway, so I deal with it every day.
The way we do things takes forever and isn't always the best way to solve the problem.
Like I said. It's a huge difference for a large rich country with only 5 million people to make these changes than say anywhere in California.
