Given how distinctive it is and the short run it’s having, I reckon these will end up as collector’s items.

It’d be nice if it was also cheaper with prices closer in line with internal combustion engine compact crossovers. It’d be nice even if the 2024 prices only managed to stay the same rather than up compared to 2023.

If the goal is to get polluting vehicles out, then this makes sense, but I like Vermont’s implementation a lot more than I like Colorado’s because Vermont’s allows you to apply those funds to electric bikes, car-sharing, and mass transit instead of electric cars/trucks.

Do you have a way to charge at home? What are electricity rates, including time of use rates, and what are gas prices in your local area? How many miles are you putting in on average a day? How often would you need to use public charging? What incentives if any do you qualify for? What segment of the automotive market are you looking at? What is your budget?

EVs can save money, they can even save a *lot* of money compared to its closest ICE competitor, but it depends on those factors above and more so without them the question doesn’t make much sense.

Also, if you want to save money, don’t get a car if you can find a way to swing it. Use mass transit, biking, micromobility (electric bike, electric scooter), etc.

This seems very nicely priced for a bus. Another article on this I saw says deliveries start in Autumn 2025 which seems quite a whiles away.

How cold is the winter you’re driving in?

PHEVs or early BEVs (no hybrid) with smaller capacity battery packs will get hit by winter much harder if it’s really cold and you’re spending energy to initially heat up the vehicle after every time it gets “cold-soaked”. The vehicle has a certain amount of material and space it needs to heat up from an ambient cold temperature and that requires a certain amount of energy over a fairly short amount of time.

Arbitrary example: let’s say it takes 5 kWh to heat up the vehicle from 0 F to a comfortable 70 F. In a 16 kWh battery, that’s going to be a massive percentage of the capacity and the miles in that fairly short amount of time and you’re not going to have much usable range if you started at 31 miles and about a third of it is gone to warm up the vehicle. If you have a battery capacity of 60 kWh and normally 250 miles of range though which is more in line with battery electric vehicles sold today, that 5 kWh would be a small dip relative to the overall range and would still be fine for most trips.

Overused rental car is possible as a factor as well.

Am I right to assume that this is still going to be alternating current at 200-240V? If so, I wonder if there are plans for DC vehicle to vehicle connections at much higher voltage and power levels.