More efficient manufacturing, falling battery costs and intense competition are lowering sticker prices for battery-powered models to within striking distance of gasoline cars.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    536·
    28 days ago

    fuck you NYT, define affordable… Nope, that’s not affordable.

    • EatATaco@lemm.eeEnglish
      271·
      28 days ago

      They implicity, but clearly, define it: the same price as gasoline cars.

      Also, Become != Are. It even notes, right in the blurb there, that they’re getting there, not that they are there.

    • ShortFuse@lemmy.world
      8·
      28 days ago

      Recently, Mr. Lawrence said, customers have been snapping up used Teslas for a little over $20,000, after applying a $4,000 federal tax credit.

      3rd sentence?

      I’ll share the rest because the paywall:

      Carmakers including Tesla, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the owner of Jeep, have announced plans for electric vehicles that would sell new for as little as $25,000.

      More than half of the used electric vehicles on the market sell for less than $30,000, according to Recurrent, a research firm that focuses on the used E.V. market.