My daughter wants me to buy a Toyota Hilux (for her and her Mom) because she likes the way they look
...I sat up and took notice when they came back from the dealer with paper work showing a bottom line of $65,000
(happily only $10,000 of that went to the government in GST, Stamp Duty and Car Registration.)
I had no idea.
anyways as you do when you start to talk about a car you start to see them all over the place..it seems every third car is a Hilux..further there other brands offering their version...so all these vehicles running around with a price tag of approx $70,000 I would say there seems to be sufficient people out there to pay big money for a vehicle..if they like the looks of it
The Hilux you could think is a Tradie vehicle but looking at the various drivers it seems to have a much wider market and so I would think the sucess of the Electric Vehicle will not be held back because of price but maybe some little thing that makes it fashionable or not...I think for many folk being able to boast they are "saving the planet" may be the thing that has them buying...yet others seem drawn by the high performance aspect..one can see why there are companies who make their money from engaging in and selling market research.
What gets me is how cheap you can buy a very good second hand car these days...like $4000 gets you a great vehicle...my approach to motoring is do it as cheap as possible so if an electric car is the cheapest thats what would sway me..for my daughter I guess it would have to appeal visually.
If you think about it an electric car should (other things being equal) be much cheaper just from the moving parts approach..they will have less.
Anyways it is getting to the point where the car I want is one that drives itself...and given the aging population and the folk who like to do nothing more than play on their phone I think that must be where the market has the greatest opportunity.
alex