I'm just wondering if everyone that could afford a $35k car, and 90% of them bought only a Tesla Model 3 or another EV, would we start running out of electricity thus have higher electricity rate? Like what is happening to gas now, like it used to be $1 in the 1990s but now is $3-4 gallon?
Would it be good or bad? Is it good to keep EV out of reach of lower income people so there is enough electricity to go around at a cheaper price? Because a poor person can go buy a $1000 car, but they likely can't find cheaper gas for $1 gallon. So at around $60 tank, 16 fill ups will be the same amount as that car, and they will pay more for gas than the car itself. At least for CA standards since gas is more expensive here, may not apply to other parts of the USA. But will there be a day when a used Tesla Model 3 could be within reach for $3000-10000?
At some point we are going to run out of gas. But how much longer, it seems auto makers are still making gas cars so it can't be anytime soon. But when will that time come when every major automaker ditches gas based cars? Because imagine gas costing $100+ / gallon and only in a couple fill ups the gas costs more than your actual car. And then at that point I think people will switch to EV even if it costs more, b/c one gas fill up costs as much or more than the car itself.
But once we run outta gas and now its $2000-3000 for a full tank of gas. Will everyone switch to EV? And then what resource is needed to produce all our electricity?
Is electric cheaper now b/c its outta reach from a good amount of people? I'm trying to compare it to the arcade ticket ecosystem because I got $850 worth of prizes for only $180, and they nerfed my game very quick. Only after two prizes, or $670 loss assuming they paid full retail. I guess I'm like the richest person at the arcade because I was the quickest person to redeem their big prizes while most normal people don't bother. I kind of thought me being a skilled arcade player redeeming big prizes is like the rich people who can afford to drive EV and the unskilled players winning finger traps are the poor people in the arcade ecosystem, who are still driving beater cars that drive off gas.
But if somehow all those fingertrap people got good at a game, or found a game with a major glitch that give out too many tickets, but was honored and they got to keep them, that would really disrupt the arcade ecosystem. Maybe to the point the prize room got cleaned out and now there is a prize shortage b/c everyone "got rich". Which is equivelant to maybe EV technology becoming so cheap very fast, now tons of poor people are driving EVs, putting more commuters relying on electric energy, is there enough supply if such a thing happened?
But yeah, they didn't tolerate my profits for very long, they cut the jackpot over half so its gonna be harder to profit. I'm wondering if its beneficial for current EV owners to keep lower income people from affording one so there is more cheap electricity to go around.
Would it be good or bad? Is it good to keep EV out of reach of lower income people so there is enough electricity to go around at a cheaper price? Because a poor person can go buy a $1000 car, but they likely can't find cheaper gas for $1 gallon. So at around $60 tank, 16 fill ups will be the same amount as that car, and they will pay more for gas than the car itself. At least for CA standards since gas is more expensive here, may not apply to other parts of the USA. But will there be a day when a used Tesla Model 3 could be within reach for $3000-10000?
At some point we are going to run out of gas. But how much longer, it seems auto makers are still making gas cars so it can't be anytime soon. But when will that time come when every major automaker ditches gas based cars? Because imagine gas costing $100+ / gallon and only in a couple fill ups the gas costs more than your actual car. And then at that point I think people will switch to EV even if it costs more, b/c one gas fill up costs as much or more than the car itself.
But once we run outta gas and now its $2000-3000 for a full tank of gas. Will everyone switch to EV? And then what resource is needed to produce all our electricity?
Is electric cheaper now b/c its outta reach from a good amount of people? I'm trying to compare it to the arcade ticket ecosystem because I got $850 worth of prizes for only $180, and they nerfed my game very quick. Only after two prizes, or $670 loss assuming they paid full retail. I guess I'm like the richest person at the arcade because I was the quickest person to redeem their big prizes while most normal people don't bother. I kind of thought me being a skilled arcade player redeeming big prizes is like the rich people who can afford to drive EV and the unskilled players winning finger traps are the poor people in the arcade ecosystem, who are still driving beater cars that drive off gas.
But if somehow all those fingertrap people got good at a game, or found a game with a major glitch that give out too many tickets, but was honored and they got to keep them, that would really disrupt the arcade ecosystem. Maybe to the point the prize room got cleaned out and now there is a prize shortage b/c everyone "got rich". Which is equivelant to maybe EV technology becoming so cheap very fast, now tons of poor people are driving EVs, putting more commuters relying on electric energy, is there enough supply if such a thing happened?
But yeah, they didn't tolerate my profits for very long, they cut the jackpot over half so its gonna be harder to profit. I'm wondering if its beneficial for current EV owners to keep lower income people from affording one so there is more cheap electricity to go around.
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