People change what they care about as conditions change.
True but they have general tendencies.
Also even if they where constantly shifting that only means they move in to a new segment of the market, while someone else moves out of it. In general younger people want smaller cars, older people want roomer cars etc. So the individual isn't fixed, but you have defined market segments. Those are not absolutely fixed either but they shift at the margin more than they shift in a wholesale way.
Electric cars tend not to only be in the economy niche, but also in the "environmentally conscious" niche. Such people are the current market for cars like the Prius.
and actually electic vehicles can be higher performance than IC vehicles.
They can be, but most of them aren't. And I was talking about the Volt, which isn't.
And it wasn't like I changed the topic to the Volt, my post was a response to calculations based off the cost per mile for operating the Volt. Higher performance cars would have a higher cost per mile (and also a higher unit cost)
Higher performance electric cars tend to have either shorter range, higher costs (than either normal electric cars, or normal high performance cars) or likely both. Also while they can have higher acceleration, the extra weight of the batteries would tend to harm handling. The Tesla apparently has very good handling, but its no Elise in this area, and it costs a lot more.
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Electric cars do have a lot of potential, and I do see them taking over the market eventually, but such changes take a long time, and they usually should take a long time. Rushing the change usually produces suboptimal results, esp. in terms of costs, but also sometimes in other ways. |
