How EVs Backed Themselves Into a Corner
The main reason EVs aren’t selling well has to do with the main reason for buying an EV.
People are told how how extremely quick EVs are; that they are much quicker-accelerating than almost any vehicle with an engine, especially otherwise comparable vehicles. And it’s true. The typical EV is very quick. Most EV crossovers are quicker than almost any V8-powered muscle car, even.
For a muscle car, quickness is a hot selling point. It is – along with how they look – the main muscle car selling point.
It’s why they are called “muscle cars.”
But muscle cars were never sold as practical – much less economical – cars. You were buying a muscle car because what mattered most was how much power it had and how quickly it got to 60 and through the quarter mile. Almost nothing else mattered.
Not range, certainly.
It was understood – it was accepted – that a muscle car had not much range because it used up a lot of gas (very quickly) in order to get to 60 in six seconds or so – which was how quick mos
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