1oneplus@alien.topB to Electric Vehicles@gearhead.townEnglish · 3 years agoMazda CEO Says EVs 'Not Taking Off' In The U.S.—Except Teslasinsideevs.comexternal-linkmessage-square118linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: teslamotors@lemmit.online
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minus-squareOk-Wasabi2873@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoThey made 457 EVs for the US market with 100 mile range and priced it over $35k. Yeah, that’s not going to be a hot seller.
minus-squarepashko90@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIn comparison with Yogo or Lada?
minus-squareManBehavingBadly@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIt’s Yugo, not Yogo lol
minus-squareChudsaviet@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years agoIn fact, there is an electric Lada prototype - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LADA_Ellada :)
minus-squarechfp@alien.topBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 years ago“No one’s buying our overpriced EVs! *sob*” - Mazda I was at a Mazda dealership ~10 yrs ago and the salesmen were absolute anti-EV, conspiracy-spouting, misinformation filled doofuses. It’s good that they’ll be out of business.
They made 457 EVs for the US market with 100 mile range and priced it over $35k. Yeah, that’s not going to be a hot seller.
But it was a premium product
In comparison with Yogo or Lada?
Lada!!
It’s Yugo, not Yogo lol
In fact, there is an electric Lada prototype - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LADA_Ellada :)
“No one’s buying our overpriced EVs! *sob*” - Mazda
I was at a Mazda dealership ~10 yrs ago and the salesmen were absolute anti-EV, conspiracy-spouting, misinformation filled doofuses. It’s good that they’ll be out of business.