Most folks don’t buy self-driving anything. It’s about 12% for Tesla, and Tesla probably has the highest uptake rate: https://carbuzz.com/12-percent-tesla-owners-choose-full-self-driving/

For buying the base spec cars, Troy Teslike reports on that (i know more about Tesla off the top of my head, been doing research, their new average sale price has been cratering), and Tesla’s most popular models are the cheap ones. That’s important to folks like me because it kills profitability and so is newsworthy.

No judgement, that’s just the cards as they lay. I like knowing things, I’m a bit “special” that way, particularly for statistics.

Yeah, it’s a matter of taste on this vehicle being nice. Honestly? I’d get a lightly used Ioniq 6 for the same price, I like the Charger body shape, but if it’s equally fast, I think the 6 will be more reliable.

1. Ioniq 5 is not 60K. MSRP is currently… what… $35,000? Makes sense it would sell like hotcakes at that price. Maybe you’re thinking the Ioniq 6? That’s a car I like, but it’s not selling great, probably for the exact same reason.
2. Teslas sold for years at that price, but their most popular model is by far and away the Model Y, with its MSRP starting at $40,000. Seeing a trend here? EVs that sell decently tend to be cheap.
3. As for it being notoriously not a good car… that one, depends what you’re looking for! It’s a muscle car. It’s fast and sexy looking and unreliable. Folks who’ve driven one tend to like it, from what I saw. I tend to skip professional reviewers/cartube, it’s hard to tell who’s paying them to say what

You seem to be misunderstanding the difference between MSRP and sales price.

MSRP is centrally or nationally set. Sales price is locally set.

Re-read the headline, you would have to misread what I actually wrote to get the understanding that you got out of it.

You’re using a lot of weasel words for somebody who called me the lazy writer :)

What percent are accurate, do you reckon? Should I update my headline to show multiple EV Chargers for sale at less than 50% of their MSRP, or just the one?

I count 9 at or below 30K, and the 10th is 31K.

https://visor.vin/search/listings?make=Dodge&model=Charger&agnostic=false&fuel_type=Full+Electric&sort=cheapest

Nice! Color me jealous, I drive an ICE truck, I test-drove a Lightning, it was very nice.

Rn, I think it’s something like 8% of new vehicle registrations per year are EVs. It’s about double that in Europe, and triple that in China (14% and 25%, I think).

So, growing, but if it grows much slower, we’ll be at the back of the pack, and I think being in the lead on this will keep our auto industry competitive for global exports, which are a big chunk of our export economy.

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Ope, right you are. I do American auto news, still figuring out how geography works on Fedia. Let me tweak that, make it more obvious.

Opens dev console

“Hah oh wow it looks pretty good considering it’s throwing 69 errors, nice”

(hard)drive it like you stole it

Ya love to see it.

Illinois is also building some pretty sweet EVs, Rivians all over the place

Huh, interesting! In the USA, we just got these laws recently, but for protests only, and from the sound of the law, it will only be enforced for people the president does not like

Motorcycle helmet or full-face bike helmet. Problem solved.

What, folks are on me all the fucking time to wear one. If they want to complain that I’m complying, that sounds like a them problem.