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One downside -- an Audi Etron starts at about $70,000. At least its a downside if you don't have a lot of extra money laying around. Average cost of used car in the US is about $7000 -- thats what many of us drive. Until us unwashed can get a safe, reliable electric car in that range (and one that I can service myself), the electic car will just remain a rich mans status symbol.

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All the cost savings in the prices of battery packs seem to be eaten up by marketing departments of companies, and in general seem to never propagate to the end consumer.

Tesla's $35,000 car was a lie, but even if it wasn't, for real mass market adoption, it needs to be hitting low-mid $20's range.

The average price of a new car in the US is now over $40,000[1].

My theory is that the rise of EVs will coincide with a rise in pricing for all vehicles. Instead of EVs getting cheaper, ICE cars will get more expensive.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-is-now-the-average-pr...

Yes, but it's changing rapidly. Our other family car was about $10000 when we got it, I'm not keen to spend too much more. But I'm holding on to when it needs replacing that a second hand electric will closer to this cost than the E-tron.

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