Gregory's Server@cstross I was reading an arstechnica article's comment section (I think it was on the post about toyota's ev concepts they make not make) and there was a back and forth between "the numbers show that electric cars are sitting on lots!" and “are you nuts more and more EVs are selling constantly, look at these numbers"
I think it settled on the first someone trying to extrapolate from the F-150 Lightning's relative struggle to sell, which might possibly be due to the ones you can actually buy being the ones that start at $70,000. vs the actual sales numbers, which are going up.
Plus there's the confounding factor that car prices in general are becoming massively inflated due to [choose your reason].
@hakirsch @cstross Detroit seems stuck in ICE thinking. With ICEs bigger cars are more profitable than smaller ones because they don't cost that much more to build. But BEV cost goes up pretty linearly with size because the battery has to be proportionate. Detroit still thinks its path is to sell $70,000 F150s, and they're going to get squashed by $17,000 BYDs if they don't pivot fast.