Electric cars aren't affordable because America's workforce is underpaid
55k on average is ignoring the entry cost of a model 3 (especially with incentives) - also average is just a bad metric for affordability.<p>An extreme example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;brand-new-tesla-model-3-less-than-14000-california&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;electrek.co&#x2F;2023&#x2F;07&#x2F;24&#x2F;brand-new-tesla-model-3-less-...</a><p>That&#x27;s also an outlier, but less than 30k isn&#x27;t which makes this post somewhat misleading (at best).<p>The Model Y was also the top selling vehicle globally across all categories for Q1 2023: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;5&#x2F;26&#x2F;23738581&#x2F;tesla-model-y-ev-record-world-bestselling-car-electric" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;5&#x2F;26&#x2F;23738581&#x2F;tesla-model-y-ev...</a> and in 2022 was the best selling car in the US: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;tesla-model-y-2022-best-selling-top-10&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.teslarati.com&#x2F;tesla-model-y-2022-best-selling-to...</a><p>Ford&#x27;s cars are probably too expensive because they ignored the EV market for a decade and it takes time to scale up production and reduce costs.<p>&gt; &quot;The big problem for EVs from a price standpoint is that the whole industry has decided that the only way to cater to American tastes is to make their EV fleet out of trucks and SUVs, eliminating the economical sedans that might be affordable.&quot;<p>I&#x27;d guess this is because Ford <i>can&#x27;t</i> profitably make an affordable sedan (they can&#x27;t do so without losing a lot of money) so they need to make a more expensive vehicle with better margins, Tesla did this too of course - they just had a decade head start while the legacy manufacturers did nothing.