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The higher prices filter into the used market. A used Model 3 costs more than a used Corolla. Go check your local listiings.
Climate policy is important, but you cannot just price people out of necessary items like transportation.
There are new electric cars that are $15,000 cheaper than the model 3. I'm so sick of people looking at electric cars and picking the $50,000+ models as if they were representative of the whole EV market, just pretending the $36,000 models aren't already real.
What BEV is cheaper than the same speced ICE? They are universally more expensive, which carries into the used market. Get the price of BEVs down and you won't have to worry about pricing the lower classes out of a used car in the future by killing the production of inexpensive cars.
Those prices will go down with time, like in about 7 years.
No one woul get priced out mate. You don't think that employers or the government would foot the bill if it came to it? Employers need money and employees. Governments need money and employers. They wouldn't just let the nation fall apart. Sure, your current paradigm leading to a known apocalypse would have to change, but this would be the catalyst.
People would have to start taking public transit to work. Or biking. Or God forbid walking. Things need to change, and this pussyfooting policy of "Oooooh, we can't change toooo fast and make people uncooooomfortable" bullshit needs to stop.
Second hand ice cars will still be available. The idea is by the time they aren't, BEV has come down.