Honda makes a small, affordable EV (around $15,000), but Americans can’t buy it because it doesn’t jump through all the safety hoops. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
It’s interesting that the EV pushers don’t allow the people they’re trying to push into EVs the kinds of EVs people might actually not need to be pushed into.
For example, the new Honda N-Van EV.
This small battery-powered van doesn’t achieve “ludicrous speed,” but it also doesn’t cost $50,000 – the low-end average sales price of the EVs Americans are allowed to buy. It costs the U.S. dollar equivalent of about $15,000. That would make it less expensive than any gas-engined vehicle you are allowed to buy (new) in this country and that might make it the kind of electric vehicle a lot of Americans might want to buy, no need for a push.
And that’s probably why they’re not going to be allowed to buy it.
Because the people pushing EVs in this country are actually using EVs as the vehicle to push most Americans out of vehicles – by making vehicles too expensive and too impractical for most Americans to be able to afford them.
Or be able to use them.
How many Americans could use a $15,000 new vehicle? Probably a lot right about now. How about a useful vehicle for that price? The N-Van has enough range (152 miles) to be just that, especially for the money. But it’s more than just that. Unlike the majority of EVs Americans are allowed to buy, the N-Van is configurable inside. It can be used to carry passengers or whatever else you need to carry. Its boxy shape would serve ideally for delivery-driver purposes and college-kid purposes. The latter could probably live inside one of these little vans and save a fortune on rent and so be able to buy much sooner
They should make an EV G-Wagen out of Deutschland now that they don’t cost so much or a Hanomag.
The Hano’s might look a little Zil or Trabantish but they are simple rugged vehicles, Trabants aren’t that bad, kind of poor man’s Lincoln Connie look.
I still laugh at that mule drawn Trabant at the JHK page.
I was hopeful for the Ford Capri EV then saw it was a rebooted Taurus for whoopie cushion sound efx.
You still can’t get the Glock .380 in FUSA which is about the only one I like besides the 18, more of a Pietro B fan myself.
According to who we can’t have this and that?
Some green weenies or red RAT homegrown Bolsheviks?
When will we be rid of these pests.
Breaking from The Charlie Daniels Band:
The Devil Went Down To Georgia (Live Saratoga ’79)