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Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’ (www.yahoo.com)
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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."

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[–] 59 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years 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.

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