Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen (www.theverge.com)

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[–] Homescool@lemmy.world -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Similar sized large Chinese electric carts (super golf) with a quarter the speed and half the range start at 3k which is 10% of this price before incentives.

I can't believe it takes 10x to get to street rated and sellable in the US

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

A good portion of the cost is in labor. Also your comparing a vehicle that cant drive highway speeds and smaller battery? Are you purposely being disingenuous?