ICE vehicles will be 75% of US car market in 2025

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Cox Automotive is predicting that EV sales will move from 7.5 % of total US sales to 10% in 2025. Hybrids and plugins will move up to 15%. This will result in ICE vehicles representing 75% of sales. It’s not clear yet what will happen to the $7500 subsidy on new EV’s.

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Maybe for city driving a small vehicle in the city for parking, but it’s not for me I’ll keep my gas powered vehicle any day over a electric vehicle, it’s estimated well over 1 million electric vehicles sold in 2024 1.3 million,
In my area everybody is driving a ICE vehicle
 
Hybrids don't count as ICE? That is an interesting way to skew the data.
Well said.
So in 2025 ICE vehicles will still command 90% of new car sales. The manufacturers admit EV sales have been a huge disappointment in the USA> WAY below initial sales projections less than 3 years ago. On top of that, we MUST keep in mind, the taxpayers are receiving $7,500 in free money to be used as a downpayment at time of purchase to the buyer of a qualifying EV, so things are far worse than mentioned in the media.
 
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Maybe for city driving a small vehicle in the city for parking, but it’s not for me I’ll keep my gas powered vehicle any day over a electric vehicle, it’s estimated well over 1 million electric vehicles sold in 2024 1.3 million,
In my area everybody is driving a ICE vehicle
What is your area?
 
It may longer than some want, but we are within just a few technological breakthroughs of electric vehicles completely taking over. Mark my words.

There are tipping points where new technology surpasses old technologies nearly instantaneously. What if a company comes out with an electric vehicle that gets something like 1000 miles of range, charges from 0-100% in 10 min, has half the rate of battery degradation, and costs $40,000? There would be very little reason to buy ICE anymore. There are technologies which could potentially deliver these kinds of numbers, so don’t be too surprised if it happens.

These breakthroughs happen periodically. Capacitive touchscreens took handheld devices from expensive niche products to mainstream necessities. Fiber optics enabled high speed internet in every household and business, allowing the proliferation of e-commerce. Refrigeration completely transformed home life.

Sometimes, a new technology changes everything, all at once.
 
Maybe for city driving a small vehicle in the city for parking, but it’s not for me I’ll keep my gas powered vehicle any day over a electric vehicle, it’s estimated well over 1 million electric vehicles sold in 2024 1.3 million,
In my area everybody is driving a ICE vehicle
Total USA cars sales for 2024 were 15.9 Million just to keep in context and why at 1.3 million EV sales maybe you do not see them in your area yet. I think just a matter of time. EVs do fill a purpose for some people, the prices are a killer right now though.
 
Maybe for city driving a small vehicle in the city for parking, but it’s not for me I’ll keep my gas powered vehicle any day over a electric vehicle, it’s estimated well over 1 million electric vehicles sold in 2024 1.3 million,
In my area everybody is driving a ICE vehicle
Plenty of people have convinced themselves they’re just city cars. With that attitude you’d end up being correct.

There’s plenty of us out here driving state to state when we need to. I’ll be taking a minor road trip in a few days for work.
 
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IN areas like yours, the only hope would be to live next door to a cell tower and be able to get Verizon or T-Mobile home Internet.

Yea, folks are always asking for some local towers to be upgraded, so they can get something ... but the county supevisors kill it because of height restrictions on zoning.
 
Yea, folks are always asking for some local towers to be upgraded, so they can get something ... but the county supevisors kill it because of height restrictions on zoning.
Zoning laws are killing us. They had their uses 50 years ago but now they're just making stuff cost more.
 
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