No... if their material costs go down, they have more breathing room to reduce the price and still make a profit. I have no doubt the costs of building battery facilities here in the US are being baked in to the prices.
I'm not saying a smaller battery is a problem - in fact I believe the opposite. For 90% of my driving I use about 30% of my stated range each day.
It appears you get what I was trying to say. I wasn't actually comparing the vehicles as much as I was saying if a MME costs me over 69k what else could I get for that kind of money. To me it's a no brainer, why pay that for an electric car when I can get so much more bang for the buck elsewhere? ?
Agreed, 1000% !!!
The question is will material costs actually go down especially when there are more and more EV models being designed and built in the future? I came up with a little something a while back and it makes me think to this day. It goes like this;
Yah no joke. I read a pretty extensive Ars Technica article on the whole Ultium platform. It really is quite cost effective and will only get more so at scale. This before NA battery supply chains reach full capacity over the next few years. That, and shortening the distance between DCFC stations while increasing the speed of charging. All adds up to being able to put smaller cheaper batteries in BEVs. The future looks bright.
Batteries are not the gasoline of today, they are the gas tanks. If electrical rates are "price gouged", it just makes going solar that much more attractive.
My point was simply that in the future we will need batteries for EV's like we need gasoline for vehicles now. In other words huge demand so I would think prices may be wild. But, what do I know?
No @nvabill on the supply/demand side you not wrong. I was just polishing up your analogy ? because gasoline is not a part in the car, it is something we buy after we have the car and have to keep on buying over and over. That is what electricity to charge will be.My point was simply that in the future we will need batteries for EV's like we need gasoline for vehicles now. In other words huge demand so I would think prices may be wild. But, what do I know?
First, I 100% see your point, and agree that at that price point there are a lot of other options for other potentially more appealing vehicles. I actually was looking at C7 Corvettes before my wife vetoed that plan (we have young kids in car seats) and the MME was the compromise that scratched some of the sports car itches while still being a good vehicle for our family / my daily commuter.
