Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year agoAuto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't workingwww.businessinsider.commessage-square127fedilinkarrow-up1137cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish90•1 year agoMercedes: the EV market is challenging at the moment. Also mercedes: pay 100k for this car with limited autonomy and dubious software in early beta stages…
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoCarmakers: (High) increase of the selling prices of all cars, gas/EV. Consummers: 20k for the simplest car, without options? No thanks, we can’t afford that
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoNext year - subscription to maintain air pressure in the tyres
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish-9•1 year agoYou can get an electric Benz way under 100k, probably half that. 100k is S-class pricing and it has always been this high.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish32•1 year agoYou made me check, the cheapest I can buy one here is 70k EUR for the EQA: EQA is the name of the new entry-level model to the all-electric world of Mercedes-EQ vehicles. What a bargain for an entry level model
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoHuh, why is no one buying it? It’s so affordable. For the low low price of ones yearly income
minus-squarezoutlinkfedilink7•1 year agoYearly income is less than 70k for most Europeans. In Denmark the average income is higher, but the rest of Europe is lower, average would probably be less than 40k.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•1 year agoI know, it’s a joke. But it’s even more of a joke when the ev is double the yearly salery
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoHere’s the honest truth though. You hear Benz and you don’t think affordable car. Benz have always been fairly high priced
Mercedes: the EV market is challenging at the moment.
Also mercedes: pay 100k for this car with limited autonomy and dubious software in early beta stages…
Carmakers: (High) increase of the selling prices of all cars, gas/EV.
Consummers: 20k for the simplest car, without options? No thanks, we can’t afford that
Next year - subscription to maintain air pressure in the tyres
You can get an electric Benz way under 100k, probably half that. 100k is S-class pricing and it has always been this high.
You made me check, the cheapest I can buy one here is 70k EUR for the EQA:
What a bargain for an entry level model
Huh, why is no one buying it? It’s so affordable. For the low low price of ones yearly income
Yearly income is less than 70k for most Europeans. In Denmark the average income is higher, but the rest of Europe is lower, average would probably be less than 40k.
I know, it’s a joke. But it’s even more of a joke when the ev is double the yearly salery
Here’s the honest truth though. You hear Benz and you don’t think affordable car. Benz have always been fairly high priced