[MrHamburger]

> Me: Or general mass market is not interested in BEVs specifically, but in a cheap vehicle which can get them from point A to point B.

> You: so I don’t see the value of you cherry picking a cheaper car, it’s just going to be a race to the bottom

That's how mass market works. People will always want cheap stuff. Not expensive. Not average. Cheap. Pretending that Model 3 is cheap compared to cheap ICE is delusional.

The whole problem with BEV infrastructure is that it currently makes no economical sense. Otherwise responsible people would be taking care for maintenance and expansion without governmental handouts.

[thebruce87m]

The average person wants the average. That’s what the average is. There will be people wanting cheap, and people wanting expensive but it all averages out to… the average.

I didn’t pretend the Model 3 was cheap compared to cheap ICE. I compared the price of a Model 3 to the average car price, and it was average.

[MrHamburger]

That's a trap of average. When you have a guy buying Taycan for 100k EUR and guy buying Golf for 30k EUR then average car price is 65k EUR. Guy in Taycan does not care about average car and guy buying Golf can't afford this average priced car.

[thebruce87m]

Well if you’re arguing that an average isn’t suitable and a median is more representative, I have good news for you - the article was actually conflating average and median:

> It’s just been revealed to me by Auto Trader that its “median new car RRP” figure for April 2024 was £41,738, rising to £42,340 in May – proving that already-high showroom prices continue to rise.

This means the model 3 is below the median new car price in the UK.