Grocery stores promoting gas discounts are not helping the transition away from gas vehicles - eviltoast

Large grocery stores around here offer cheaper gas if you shop at there store. This can be up to a dollar a gallon off.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
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    6 months ago

    Yup can confirm. Leased a new car six month ago. Wanted to get an electric, but the downsides of electric cars just didn’t make sense. Much more expensive, and worse in winter. Cheaper to charge, but not at all enough to make up the huge extra cost.

    When the Chinese make a cheap ev that is better than fuel cars, it’s going to become more profitable than Tesla.

    • seang96@spgrn.com
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      6 months ago

      Chinese are already doing that. They are way above and beyond in the advancements and got the cheap labor. It’s why we don’t see them it would kill the automobile industry. I’m sure they have lacking safety standards too compared to other countries, but I’m sure they’d patch that up to sell them. I read they got EVs under $30k and they have the first consumer.EV with a sodium battery; this means it’s more environmental friendly since it has no lithium, it doesn’t have the issue with cold weather causing lower efficiency, and it’s cheaper to make.