Scotty Kilmer explains why electric cars will soon be \u201cdirt cheap\u201d Scotty Kilmer\/TeslaYouTube auto personality and mechanic Scotty Kilmer has predicted that Teslas and other electric vehicles will drastically drop in price going forward into 2020. The work of Tesla and other manufacturers in the electric car market have only seen their products become more common in the last few years, but Kilmer says even though they\u2019re more readily available, you can\u2019t force people to buy them. With oil and gas becoming more expensive in recent years, some may have presumed more people would switch over to the less expensive option in electric cars, although Kilmer said many still seem to prefer spending money on good old gasoline-powered vehicles instead. Sales of electric vehicles in China, where most of them are produced, were down 77% in the last 8 months, according to Kilmer. \u201cNow this is before the Coronavirus stuff,\u201d the YouTuber clarified. \u201cYou can force someone to make something [electric cars], but you cannot force people to buy it.\u201d The Coronavirus\u2019s potential effect on the price of oil is another problem electric cars may have to contend with, as it may actually fall in due course, on top of being an untested technology when compared to gas cars as well. \u201cIf oil is cheap, if gas is cheap, that\u2019s even less of an incentive for people to go out and get electric cars,\u201d the 66-year-old continued. \u201cThere\u2019s less incentive for people to switch to an electric technology that really hasn\u2019t proven itself.\u201d Teslas, and the likes, have also been mainstream for much less time than their gas-powered counterparts, which can make them less convenient to operate as well. \u201cThere\u2019s less infrastructure for it, takes too much time to charge the vehicles,\u201d Kilmer pointed out. \u201cTakes you two minutes to fill it up with gas, might take you 20 hours to charge up your electric battery.\u201d Top Gear star James May even said he had the same issue with electric cars, that they take too long to charge and it doesn\u2019t last long enough, in a recent video, but whether or not the market for this type of product changes drastically as Kilmer seems to be suggesting remains to be seen. If you hear all the potential problems facing electric vehicles and still decide you want one though, 2020 could turn out to be the year to pick one up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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