In all fairness, a Mustang GT comes with 275 mm Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires on 19-inch wheels. So it's even worse in this respect. We, Mustang enthusiasts, are not in a position to scoff at other people's tire costs.
But a Honda civic/ toyo tercel 4 tires are 598.00 and go twice the miles(tread life) .In all fairness, a Mustang GT comes with 275 mm Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires on 19-inch wheels. So it's even worse in this respect. We, Mustang enthusiasts, are not in a position to scoff at other people's tire costs.
In other newsHmmm. It took this long to figure this out?
https://www.thestreet.com/electric-vehicles/why-consumers-are-passing-up-electric-vehicles
“Car buyers are willing to give up their gas-guzzlers for good, but as Bloomberg reports, they aren’t making the jump straight to fully-electric vehicles; they’re buying hybrids.
Data from analytics firm GlobalData shows that sales of hybrid cars — cars that combine the use of electric power with a gas powered engine, more than doubled in the United States since 2020.”
“‘The auto industry doesn’t function in a mode where you just flip a switch and everything’s different,‘said Schuster. ‘[Hybrids are] a way for the mass market to start edging into electric vehicles.’”
“On the flip side, Toyota has been spending close to $50 billion on EVs and introduced new production methods that would help them roll out more electric models. However, former chairman Akio Toyoda predicted that many buyers aren’t ready to fully embrace EVs and that they should be afforded the choice to choose what kind of car they want.”
That's a fair point, but the Model 3 isn't exactly an econobox. It's an expensive performance vehicle. A 162 mph vehicle that does 0-60 in three seconds is more in the Mustang's league than in the Civic's, and is bound to have expensive tires.
Hello; This tire issue seems to be similar to the fire issue in ways. The fire issue is the more troubling to be sure. BEV's are of a some different nature than the traditional ICE. All BEV that I currently know of are much heavier than an equivalent ICE. Due to the mass of the batteries. To go faster and have more range the batteries grow even heavier. The BEV may look like an ordinary vehicle but has the weight near a full sized pickup or close to it.In all fairness, a Mustang GT comes with 275 mm Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires on 19-inch wheels. So it's even worse in this respect. We, Mustang enthusiasts, are not in a position to scoff at other people's tire costs.
Hello; To be sure I have never considered a Tesla or other BEV's the same way I think of a Mustang GT. I have been distracted by the weight I suppose. Also i have never driven a BEV of any sort so cannot compare the performance. I have driven very light ICE cars and 1/2 ton, 3/4 ton, one ton and heavier trucks. The weight makes a difference.
Seriously.
I‘m just giving actual numbers, as they’ve been recorded.
This any or may not be true. Do you have a source for this particular claim or is it just your interpretation of Tesla’s sales figures? Is there a survey you’d like to cite? What if its just as simple as “there are better EV’s on the market these days, so people are increasingly choosing them over the Tesla offerings”?
And yet the sales figures seem climb every year….
LOL.. You haven't even established the validity of your original premise. I understand that you FEEL that way, but your feelings don’t matter here.
I did. Did you see the bit where EV sales have hit an all time high in the UK? I wonder if the Increased demand might have something to do with it?
You do know Tesla counts every used unit swapping ownership as a new sale when they caculate sales. The numbers are not JUST new units put into service.
Hello; You left out the ICE options of course which have worked fine for over a century. I imagine you also leave out all the ICE heavy equipment used to mine and transport materials to build not only the BEV but the "green energy" EV fuel suppliers such as wind, solar and such electricity makers.
Hello; Yes FRAUD! Another point can be made. The EV champions on here have failed to mention this tidbit in all the months they have been posting about the virtues of an EV. So, if they knew and did not mention this fact such is another lever of deceit. If they did not know such tells much about their competency.
