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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
That's all well and good, but also just gimmicks. You can find little stuff like that in any modern premium car. None of that will matter once Porsche, BMW, Audi, and Mercedes offer electric cars with more range, better support, faster charging, better performance, and better quality for the same money.
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I agree with you wholeheartedly and have been saying the same thing those past 2 years... Yet, those aforementioned germans seem to be taking their sweet time to deliver... My E-Golf is coming off its dirt-cheap-lease in 4 months. There's *nothing* out there to replace it from BMW, Audi, Mercedes or Porsche. And the few offerings are way up there price wise.
There's a new Leaf (yawn), The Bolt/I3 (like driving the box it came in), E-Fiat 500 (Looks like a can of Yoplait) and the Tesla 3 (Sadly fugly from all angles). Seems VW gave up on their Golf which is annoying because at least it looked "normal" and they could have done a GTI version or something.
I test drove the T3 at lunch from a recent owner, work colleague. I'm very impressed by the power and extra range vs my E-Golf, but as a car guy, I don't picture myself paying $50K for something this ugly, with no gauges, and a giant iPad that landed mid dash. The rear door seals also looks gnarly and overall it feels a little cheap inside for 50K.
I was hoping Audi was going to release something and was invited to the Etron party, but that's $75K starter price for a ho-hum crossover that does 5.5 sec to 60! "Meh."
Not sure what the germans are waiting for, or if batteries don't scale well cost wise, but seems like I'm going back to gas in a few month, annoyingly (can't tell you how much I've enjoyed instant torque and not visiting gas stations these past 2 years)