Listen to “AAH #754 – 2nd Half Car Sales Forecasts Don't Look That Good” on Spreaker.
2025 was the year where U.S. sales were supposed to hit 16.2 million vehicles. They’ll probably come in 1 million short of that. Forecaster Jeff Schuster explains what went wrong.
– H2 sales forecast
– Brewing battle between dealers and direct sales
– Tesla inspired by Chaparral 2J & Brabham BT46B
PANEL:
Jeff Schuster, 5 Corners Holdings LLC
Gary Vasilash, shinymetalboxes.net
John McElroy, Autoline.tv
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Owner of two EVs and no longer a Tesla stock holder, I really don’t care what others drive because they don’t pay my bills. I just can’t afford to drive an ICE car.
Last nights benchmark showed a cost of $5.80/100 miles, SuperCharger-to-SuperCharger. With my solar roof, I get free miles around town as well as to and from the Interstate. It is cheaper to maintain my Tesla, $9,000 battery replacement, than to buy another EV.
All cars reach “end of life” when a repair is too expensive or “unobtainium.” But that is not today and likely to happen about the time I have to surrender my driver’s license.
My Prius costs about $5.00 to $6.00 per hundred miles for fuel, and a $50 oil change once a year. No $9000 batteries, and in the unlikely event I needed a battery, it would cost only $2-3K for a new one, and much less for a “rebuild.”