EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
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EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon
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sippingabonedry · · focus · HN ↗
There is still no widespread charging infra. Oh sure, there are chargers. If you're lucky and your town is on a state highway there might be one or two chargers in the entire town — their purpose being so visitors don't become stranded.
Outside of cities, they are not there in sufficient quantity for widespread adoption.
The apartment problem has not been solved either, and people do not have the time in their lives to dedicate to charging at a shared public charger.
Europe still loves its compact manual transmission cars; but what we may see is a transition away from diesel to petrol vehicles strictly for cost reasons.
eqvinox · · focus · HN ↗
I thought this was a German (D/A/CH) fetish, is it all of Europe?
tpm · · focus · HN ↗
"compact manual transmission cars" means cheapest cars you can get. Nobody loves them, but they were cheap. They aren't cheap anymore and if TCO points to a small EV, people will buy that one.
If my memory servers right, in 2008 you could buy a new Dacia Sandero for under 6000 euro in our country (EU). It's over 13600 right now for the current generation.