The number of buyers in the U.S. considering an electric vehicle purchase in 2024 has fallen from a year ago due to a shortage of affordable cars, inadequate charging infrastructure and ignorance about EV benefits, a study by J.D. Power, opens new tab has shown.
Other factors contributing to waning EV demand in the United States include stubborn inflation, high interest rates and underwhelming growth in model availability, the study said.
I’ve been actively suggesting to those who ask my opinion that they should wait until 2025 and more models coming out with NACS charging integrated. Tesla may be a shitshow but you can’t (yet) beat the charging infrastructure and adapters are never as good.
Also, the market is changing so rapidly that it’s hard to justify most of the current offerings.
1 extra year will help to see how the batteries actual perform. After 10 years a Tesla’s battery is under 80% of its original capacity, you’re at the point of losing 1/4, 25%, of range. Not sure how many fail completely.
Not to mention many live in cold climates 1/3+ of the year, further impacting EV capacity. That’s the killer for me currently. I can’t not go to work for a week due to a cold snap.
I can’t not go to work for a week due to a cold snap.
Are you working 100+ miles away from home? On a 300 mile per useful charge battery, you temporarily lose about 20% usefulness to extreme cold, that still leaves you with 270 total range. So assuming you work 100 miles away, and do zero charging at work, you’d still have 170 miles of range to get back home in the cold.
If you can charge at work, this becomes even easier.
I’ve heard it’s closer to 40% range loss. And yes, I do work that far away at times. Yes it’s a separate issue how far I need to go, with no good solutions as my spouse works in the opposite direction.
So 20% capacity loss due to age and add another 40% loss ( idk if that’s true, but I’ve read it in articles on Lemmy) is a huge issue for some.
I’ve heard it’s closer to 40% range loss.
Maybe at -40 degrees if you leave your car outside in the weather. Granted I park my EV in my garage and the coldest its been since I’ve owned it has been maybe -10 degrees F (-24 degrees C).
So 20% capacity loss due to age
20% from age you’d only see after 12 or more years. If you’re charging at home instead of DC fast charging it will likely be less degradation that that even.
Interesting, glad to hear it takes that long to decrease that much. I also don’t have a garage to charge in either.
How much range did you lose at -10F? Where I live it isn’t unusual to have stretches of -20 for a week at a time.
In Canada in places where it gets really cold, it used to be common to plug in your car for the block heater in your engine.
I mean people are also probably planning on buying fewer bagels this year.
They’re relatively pricey, they’re hard to find, you likely can’t charge one if you live in an apartment or rent a house and the economy is in the shitter.
So yeah.
Many are discounting their cars quite a bit, especially leases. My state added in an instant rebate that brings down some bz4x trims to $60/month for the years. That would actually pay for itself with gas savings.
Apartment charging is still an issue that needs to be solved. But home rental shouldn’t be much of an issue if there is an outdoor outlet. Charging at level 1 will get you between 3-5 miles per hour of charge which will top 50-80% of people up overnight.
Edit: fixed autocorrect typos.
I would totally buy an electric cat.
I feel like that needs to be an option. We have had electric dogs for years. Why no electric cats?
No no no no, I keep looking at cats and being grateful that they are so small. Why would you create A.I. based on a predator?
“We should have known better than to keep upgrading the cat, Manny. It knows us too well.” Accellerando, C. Stross
