It’s so wild to me to make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events. My next car will be an EV not suggesting it’s a bad decision however I’m still blown away by statistics like this.
> It’s so wild to me to make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events.<p>Recent events? Russia going rogue and the US going haywire both happened a decade ago at least. Those are two major suppliers of fossil fuel for Europe.
The current trend was bound to happen, it only required time for the industry to pivot.
We're commenting on the fact that demand has surged in the last few months. Russian and American behavior from a decade ago didn't (directly) cause that.
There was definitely a build up. Trump was held back from being Trump in the first term. Even with that, there was no recourse for any of the actions that he took. There were also the court decisions that happened in between terms. So this term, he naturally feels no need to hold back. It is unlikely this Trump term would happen had his first not happened.
Recent consequences, the events began long ago :)
"make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events" You have this all backwards. The fact is that for many decades petroleum is an unreliable energy source due to geopolitical factors, but people have been pretending that was not the case. What has happened in the last two months is people have finally realized the long-term truth.
It moves up people's purchasing plans. If you were expecting to replace your vehicle in the next two years because of performance degradation, and now your fuel costs are substantially higher, then a purchase <i>today</i> might make more sense than your original plan.
The thing is a lot of people might be right at the tipping point of buying an EV and then some news like this comes out and it pushes them over the line.<p>I feel EVs at this moment are right at the level of “I’m gonna buy a new car, but maybe I’ll wait for the one after before I jump into an EV”. Better batteries (solid state), better charging speeds and more fast charger availability seem to have a large group of people waiting.
It’s not a bad idea. I bought in 2022 and the range of newer EVs is already a lot more than mine. But I really enjoy my car and don’t have much pressure to take so many roadtrips.<p>What I can’t see doing is buying a new ICE now. If you just want something to hold you over a few years, buy used or lease.
That makes no sense to me. I've had an EV for five years and right now the infrastructure is fantastic in comparison. There are chargers everywhere, they're fast enough, and the prices are reasonable. The batteries are also quite large. I see absolutely no reason to buy an IC car any more. Many people have solar panels installed, making the commute practically free.
Renault seems to have made a sensibly priced range with some classic styles too. Familiar cars but with EV, rather than early adopter cars like the Nissan Leaf or weird tech bro cars.
The Renault 5 is selling like crazy.<p>Makes sense why, reasonable price, good design, made in Europe EV.<p>It's what a lot of people have been waiting for.
I'm well aware things can change, but having my everyday commute costs generally decoupled from geopolitics seems nice
> It’s so wild to me to make a multiyear purchasing decision based upon recent events.<p>Even wilder to project other peoples decisions so naively
> based upon recent events<p>Climate change has been in the zeitgeist for decades now. Pretty sure many people are cognizant of this and want to move away from fossil fuels. This is just a boost to do so.
I bought one because I had a feeling that the price of used EVs was about to shoot up
This also coincides with EVs becoming better and cheaper
I think this is people that were thinking of getting an EV anyway and they decided to do it earlier
Pretty frustrating that so many people have to face the actual crisis to actually react to it. And that’s the case in so many situations
What is there to not understand. Given large enough population there's always someone ready to update.