From GM to Tesla to Mercedes, execs across the auto industry are tempering expectations on electric vehicles.
  • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    8 months ago

    Mercedes: the EV market is challenging at the moment.

    Also mercedes: pay 100k for this car with limited autonomy and dubious software in early beta stages…

    • NanoooK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      91·
      8 months ago

      Carmakers: (High) increase of the selling prices of all cars, gas/EV.

      Consummers: 20k for the simplest car, without options? No thanks, we can’t afford that

    • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
      413·
      8 months ago

      You can get an electric Benz way under 100k, probably half that. 100k is S-class pricing and it has always been this high.

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        8 months ago

        You made me check, the cheapest I can buy one here is 70k EUR for the EQA:

        EQA is the name of the new entry-level model to the all-electric world of Mercedes-EQ vehicles.

        What a bargain for an entry level model

        • WallEx@feddit.deEnglish
          15·
          8 months ago

          Huh, why is no one buying it? It’s so affordable. For the low low price of ones yearly income

          • zout@kbin.social
            7·
            8 months ago

            Yearly income is less than 70k for most Europeans. In Denmark the average income is higher, but the rest of Europe is lower, average would probably be less than 40k.

            • WallEx@feddit.deEnglish
              6·
              8 months ago

              I know, it’s a joke. But it’s even more of a joke when the ev is double the yearly salery

      • averyfalken@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        Here’s the honest truth though. You hear Benz and you don’t think affordable car. Benz have always been fairly high priced