That was peak Appstore. Its all trash and scam apps now.

You mean selling something for $100,000 over its MSRP which is also over its production cost was never going to last?

I can’t believe it, what a total shock!

Nope. The peak fuel consumption (at least in the US) was in 2019. Gas prices have only gone up since.

It comes down to price, as simple as that. Apple charges a premium, people expect a premium product.

The old saying in business is the bigger the ship the harder it is to steer.

Thats why there’s been a lot of startups and small name brand EV’s coming to market. Eventually “major” companies will invest more and more, but its not cheap, not easy and not quick.

Where the hell are you getting your information from?

When you buy a used ICE car, do you replace the engine and transmission? ICE engines wear over time, just like batteries lose capacity over time. They don’t just suddenly fail, or lose tens or hundreds of miles of range.

On top of that, batteries can be repaired. When a part on your engine goes bad, do you replace the whole engine?

Worst case scenario if the battery fails and its outside of the generous powertrain warranty most EV’s have, it still costs about the same as an ICE engine replacement.

Stop taking your information from Facebook, or from people that have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.

If anything, thieves are less likely to mess with an EV because there’s no catalytic converter to steal.

No, not even close. EV’s are required to make a fake noise which is sometimes louder than ICE. On top of that, over a certain speed all you hear is tire noise anyway.

This will never work for a variety of reasons.

• Its going to hurt EV adoption if you have to reserve charge spots, especially for road trippers.
• If you reserve a spot for ~10am and don’t roll in until 10:15am, is the charger not available to anyone for that entire 15 minutes? What if you reserve and don’t show up at all.
• It puts more unneeded dependence on apps.
• If someone pulls in desperate for a charge but they can’t use it because someone with 52% reserved it an hour ago but isn’t there yet, are they just supposed to sit around?

The only solution is to introduce more charging stations. More and more are being built, but solutions like this aren’t going to help.

My work has this setup. Its primarily a EV charging space, but if no EV’s are charging it can be used as a handicap parking spot. This is only allowed because there are other handicap parking spots, so this just offers a surplus if no EV’s are charging.