Volkswagen is on track for its smallest year of China sales since 2012, according to CNBC analysis of public data for the first three quarters of the year.
I feel like car culture in the US is really hurting adoption rates. Just about every man over 40 that I know hates EVs, not all, but the vast majority.
But so many of them are known as their circles “car guy” so people seek out their opinions. Then they say the stupidest shit. You see it in this sub all the time. And they’ll always push those goalposts back when their prediction is wrong. Hell according to “car guys” from 10 years ago, I should have had to replace the battery 3+ times for $10k a pop in my volt because “they use the same batteries and cell phones and those things are garbage after 2 or 3 years”
They also pretend that you can’t charge at home. Or that the range is terrible. Hell you even hear the claim that they are all unreliable and impossible to fix.
So sick of people that hold on to the past with an iron grip
It’s not really men over 40 who are buying cars. The majority of consumer spending is done by women, so you have to market towards them to sell anything. And right now they’re into large SUVs.
I’m not being a dick, I think you just missed my point. In most friends groups, men over 40 are often asked what they think is best, and because of our car culture they often give shitty advise.
Its always the same kind of knuckle dragging idiot too, they vote conservative and don’t have a single original thought on EVs.
Everything they know comes from talk radio, Fox or some fringe media outlet bankrolled by big oil.
They also love Elon Musk, but they used to hate him until he opened his mouth
Big Oil ran an incredibly successful campaign against EVs, to the point that people will ad nauseum repeat nonsense like the battery thing till the cows come home.
If anyone is trying to get you to hate or fear something, you should really ask why, and these people just don’t.
I feel like car culture in the US is really hurting adoption rates. Just about every man over 40 that I know hates EVs, not all, but the vast majority.
But so many of them are known as their circles “car guy” so people seek out their opinions. Then they say the stupidest shit. You see it in this sub all the time. And they’ll always push those goalposts back when their prediction is wrong. Hell according to “car guys” from 10 years ago, I should have had to replace the battery 3+ times for $10k a pop in my volt because “they use the same batteries and cell phones and those things are garbage after 2 or 3 years”
They also pretend that you can’t charge at home. Or that the range is terrible. Hell you even hear the claim that they are all unreliable and impossible to fix.
So sick of people that hold on to the past with an iron grip
It’s not really men over 40 who are buying cars. The majority of consumer spending is done by women, so you have to market towards them to sell anything. And right now they’re into large SUVs.
I’m not being a dick, I think you just missed my point. In most friends groups, men over 40 are often asked what they think is best, and because of our car culture they often give shitty advise.
Its always the same kind of knuckle dragging idiot too, they vote conservative and don’t have a single original thought on EVs.
Everything they know comes from talk radio, Fox or some fringe media outlet bankrolled by big oil.
They also love Elon Musk, but they used to hate him until he opened his mouth
Big Oil ran an incredibly successful campaign against EVs, to the point that people will ad nauseum repeat nonsense like the battery thing till the cows come home.
If anyone is trying to get you to hate or fear something, you should really ask why, and these people just don’t.