The Electric Vehicle Acceptance Tipping Point: $5-A-Gallon Gas

It's alread over £5 a US gallon in the UK which is about $8 at the moment!!!
Maybe you guys can see why we like our small economical cars.
You can imagine how fond we are of the government and bankers who got us in this sorry state.
Del

Knocked up 1000k yesterday. Diesel was around AU $1.55 / litre or US $6.02 per little gallon ( a lot more for an imperial gal). Not exactly a cheap exercise, but despite my involvement in electric traction I see no current way to achieve the same job with a Battery Electric Vehicle. Diesel Electric Hybrid, now that is another story.

The high price of electric vehicles is not due to the expense of making them. It's due to profit. I could easily get along with an electric car that had a range of 80 miles, and I would buy it for $20K.

No, it is due to paying for NRE costs and the costs of batteries.

NRE is not profit, it is the up front cost investors put up to pay guys like us to design a product and get it ready for production.

Yes, prices will eventually come down, but there many issues to deal with first before that happens (batteries are one thing). Even when it does, prices are not likely to be much better than current costs for cars.

I've been hoping that diesel would pick up in the US but still hardly any options. I say bring on the Euro Diesel Compacts!

Here is diesel pick up that is compact from Europe.

It's not just the price of fuel which is the tipping point it's the practicality of EV's that will determine whether they're acceptable or not.

When you can only get 100-200 miles out of an EV then have to wait 1-12 hours to recharge in comparison to 300 to 400 miles out of a petrol driven car with a 5-10 minute turnaround to refuel. Then you'll see why EV's have a way to go.

I'd love to have a EV to do my daily commute but I'm an outer urban dweller and while a Leaf EV could get me to work, I'd have to push it home again. Yes I've looked at the Prius, but it only makes sense if they'd done it as a WVO diesel instead petrol.

Artificially making essential base products more expensive only compounds other issues in the economy as a whole. But then elite leftard academics never understand how economies actually work.