• @[email protected]
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    1111 months ago

    For those who don’t want to read about how aMaZiNg this car is or just don’t wanna scroll, it starts at $130,000.

  • @HenriVolney
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    911 months ago

    Electric SUVs are no better than gas trucks. The weight and shape of the vehicle require an unsustainable amount of energy. Furthermore, they give rich people the moral validation that keeps them trashing the planet with a good conscience.

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      711 months ago

      They also weigh even more than an equivalently sized combustion powered truck, and really do a number on road surfaces. Because they weigh so damn much the kinetic energy involved when the Karen driving one inevitably hits something is also immense, even more than a fuel burning truck of the same dimensions. Bear that in mind in case you ever find one plowing through your living room.

      The vast majority of people who think they “need” a truck do not, in fact, actually need a truck or large SUV.

  • @[email protected]
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    711 months ago

    Oh man I can’t wait to see that giant grill and headlights fill the entirety of my rear view mirror.

  • Flying Squid
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    611 months ago

    Imagine if car companies made electric cars most people could afford…

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      Why would they do that when rich people buy new ones every two years? Everyone else can just buy a used car.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    “Sleek”

    It looks monstrous, like it’s designed for mowing down pedestrians instead of getting people from A to B.

  • @[email protected]
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    311 months ago

    If you qualified for a 3% loan on $130,000 for 84 months (7 yrs), payments would be $1,717.77 per month. Total cost $144,292.68. Fuck all the way off.

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      The people that can afford these cars typically buy them out right, or they use collateral to obtain them. This isn’t a game for common folk.

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        No I definitely get that but the whole point of EVs is to make them more desirable and assessable to everyone. The big problem is just like the lightning, dealers will mark that shit up. $113k will be a steal. I figure it will be around $130-140k by the end.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      To be fair, if this car is even remotely on your radar as a serious purchase possibility, you probably have a car that you’d trade in to lower that $130K number.

      Of course, I don’t, but that’s why I’m not even considering it.

      • @gravitas_deficiency
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        Or, just have your people wire the money to the dealer, then have another one of your people go to the dealer, pick up the car and your key, and bring it back to one of your several properties.

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          Dealerships will deliver, no charge.

          Source: they delivered a midsized SUV to my work and picked up my trade-in at no cost to me, and this was 10 years ago