Are Electric Vehicles the New Quartz Watches?
So, a series of awful circumstances lead me to owning a Tesla. The INSANE rebates and Tesla's discounts made this car cost me less than $24k new. Honestly, I think that is exactly what it is worth. For note: Elon is awful and I kind of hate myself for owning this car. However...it is amazing. I am not a car person. I don't drive fast. I just need a reliable way to get to work. There is no romance about cars for me...usually. This basically runs on a upscaled version of my toothbrush. It runs on software that looks like my 2017 Android. But it is an amazing car. I love my Speedy, but it makes no sense as a watch if you don't love watches. A smartwatch costs 1/10th the price and is massively more functional for most people. A Timex is 1/100th and equally functional. Are we about to enter a period where EVs become stupid cheap to build (Imagine a car version of a $500 Amazon Ebike. $7-8k easily.)? Will we romanticize a gas engine the way we do a mechanical watch? My thoughts? Absolutely.
Just like the swiss time trials when Seiko took over the accuracy on mechanical swiss, Ev's have destroyed ICE vehicles
Wouldn't EVs be more like the Swiss quartz movements that beat the Japanese and Swiss mechanicals (which would be ICE)?
I think you'll be surprised in the next 20 years at where the auto industry is going. EVs are not sustainable.
There's a reason Toyota is sticking with Hybrid and not going all-in on pure EV, and it's not because Toyota isn't keeping up.