As an owner of an ID3, it’s a great car. But I also find it very expensive, especially if you are looking for things that I would now consider basic (like the rear camera, that is optional on a minimum 30k€ car). And don’t get me started that you have to pay to “unlock” more HP on your car (that is just a small piece of software).
I’m worried that, due to the requirement of having a massive battery pack under the floorboards, we won’t ever have something that doesn’t look like an SUV
Technology will catch up. Batteries today have a capacity of around 250w/kg, but in the lab they are already 400-500w/kg. At some point “range anxiety” stops being a real issue, and then you don’t need to cram as many batteries as you can anymore, and you focus on optimizing what you already have.
Everything else in an electric car is already more compact than an ice equivalent.
It’s not just the US. There is exactly one new car by any car company anywhere that I would like to drive and that’s the ID3 Neo.
There’s 0 for me. Luckily my car only has 50k miles and doesn’t have all the dumb tech or split headlights (yuck).
As an owner of an ID3, it’s a great car. But I also find it very expensive, especially if you are looking for things that I would now consider basic (like the rear camera, that is optional on a minimum 30k€ car). And don’t get me started that you have to pay to “unlock” more HP on your car (that is just a small piece of software).
I really just want something that looks like a normal car and has switches and buttons and isn’t too big
That’s apparently extremely hard in the era of SUVs and huge tablet displays… At least for the second there is some pushback
I’m worried that, due to the requirement of having a massive battery pack under the floorboards, we won’t ever have something that doesn’t look like an SUV
Just look at the new “Ferrari”
Technology will catch up. Batteries today have a capacity of around 250w/kg, but in the lab they are already 400-500w/kg. At some point “range anxiety” stops being a real issue, and then you don’t need to cram as many batteries as you can anymore, and you focus on optimizing what you already have.
Everything else in an electric car is already more compact than an ice equivalent.
Okay then my other worry is that people will be so used to buying SUVs that car makers won’t make anything else.
Which has already happened.