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by dogma1138 1486 days ago
So screw poor people eh? Until you can buy a beater EV for $2000 you can’t make gasoline price prohibitive unless you really want a Revolution.

Even in Europe where public transport is arguably better in most places than in the US car ownership rates are still very high and a very large portion of the population is dependent on them.

Even if Tesla does bring the Model 3 to its $30K price range that would still make it price prohibitive to most of the population in the west.