Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’::“I don’t think I would have believed it.”

  • olympicyes@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you read the article you’d see that he said that in the context of buying a Chevy Suburban in 2030. Suburbans start at $77k, so I don’t think his comment is that out of line.

    • 3laws@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s not, of course it’s not.

      But we know that legacy Reddit users never even bothered to read the articles anyway. Hurray! I missed-- not.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but it’s still a fair comment because the cars are too expensive for anyone to buy The battery compared to another car that’s too expensive to buy doesn’t really make any difference.

        Because the thing about expensive gas powered cars is there’s also not expensive gas powered cars. So he’s comparing expensive electric cars to variable price gas powered cars.

      • Aopen@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        I usually dont bother to read articles, because they are seo garbage. I glance at top comments written by true people to verify info instead

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      1 year ago

      That context is great, but I haven’t seen any articles about the Chevy CEO saying such astoundingly tone deaf shit. 🤔 maybe the price isn’t what’s inflammatory.