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OC375

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34. Cost May Well Not Be An Issue For Most Potential EV Buyers

Reply to MichMan (Reply #31)

Fri Nov 7, 2025, 07:47 PM

Nov 2025

Most folks I know trust their ICE to do the job, and won't spend more for an EV, truck if on an EV truck at all. ICE parts are relatively plentiful, ICE maintenance tempo and cost is familiar and better understood by all, and there's the relative ubiquitous knowledge base in every city in the US on how to work on and maintain ICE vehicles. Hundreds of EV's "freezing to death" off Lake Michigan in winter a few years back didn't boost confidence, either. I was just saying, despite all that, for me, it's cost. +/-$10k has real impact to me financially, and as such I'm out for now.

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