Old muscle cars converted to EV I think are so cool. There was a show that converted an old K10 truck and hid the batteries in the bed tool box.
A 80s station wagon, a Country Squire, or 70s luxury cruiser like a Cadillac or Lincoln would be awesome.

EVs, or just newer cars in general, are just so boring and cramped. Not to mention all the connection and surveillance concerns.

Nah, I meant the state says they are going to find and kill all of us that ever said anything bad about trump. His signature is on the strategy document already. Correct assumption though, and I’m not able to leave the dying empire yet so I might die here.

Anyone’s car near any protests turn the owners into suspected domestic terrorists, for example. Remote shutdown so they can box your car in and kidnap you. It listens in on your conversations and AI/LLMs have made data analysis super easy. Nationwide Flock cameras are enough to be targeted anyway, so I don’t need my car shutting off in an emergency and snitching on me to the traitors with guns. More people will die if EV conversions or old cars are made illegal.

You see what they did to eBikes ?

Chevy Bolt? I don’t know anything about it and didn’t bring it up since there’s no direct comparison to highlight price competitiveness. However it’s a reasonably priced vehicle marketed as a value for basic transportation.

But yeah everyone wanted to follow the Tesla model of starting out with expensive models serving a small niche. That worked for Tesla when there was no market, but you can’t expect to copy the approach that established the market when you’re trying to break into an existing market. Legacy manufacturers were stupid for trying so of course never reached the scale for profitability. But then they gave up before pivoting to affordable vehicles, and politics broke everything …… we know there are plenty of affordable value-priced EVs in the world, just not in the US due to politics and legacy inertia.

That's new, there is also used. But the fact is you can't compare it to your junker since, like I said, no one is asking you to switch right away.

The 7k seems like a lot but it isn't since you get it back quickly with the savings on maintenance and gas.