EV cars

Hi all, am I the only one struggling to understand what’s happening with the development of EV cars, I have just been reading about the new upcoming Mercedes AMG which will have a mass of over 2 tons and have over a 1000 hp, I fail to understand the point of these cars, more materials to manufacture etc with a predicted price tag of nearly £200,000 pounds.

There seems to be a car like this announced every month, when is this madness going to end? there seems to be lots of people interested, but what happens when all these cars are further down the chain, and no one will be able to afford to run them and then the price to scrap.

Yes I am old, but I am not anti EV, driven lots, we have them at work, I do like how they drive for a daily, also I think they make sense for a town car, it just seems to me they are getting bigger to satisfy demand.

Opinions?

Supply and demand will always win. n the U.K. something like 69% of new cars are sold to fleet buyers. They have quite good tax incentives to dive into EV cars. It makes sense from that point of view. It maybe doesn’t work so well if the folk plonked in them need to do significant mileage and spend a chunk of their day waiting for their car to charge. Productivity for those folk will reduce potentially

the used market seems to be sticky as folk who buy used are wary of what nick the battery is in store they aren’t really shifting very well there. Dealers don’t want them on the forecourt as they don’t want stock they can’t turn round.
Government is trying to force main dealers to sell a certain percentage of all new cars as EVs and that interfering with the market.

I can’t really have one as I drive a fair mileage to work and can’t charge at home as I street park and no charger at the other end. It might be fun going 0-60 in 3 seconds but that’s about the only bit of fun really. I don’t want the hassle of charging so I’m not looking at the prospect of ever owning one right now.

if they can come up with something with a long range it might work for me. I’m not really that interested in getting away from the lights like Ayrton Senna TBH

China is flooding the markets with these they apparently have football sized fields full of unsold stocks & its estimated Britain will need at least 3-5 Nuke power stations when or IF everything is electrically powered

no excuse for over 300bhp/ton on public roads, where inexpert drivers abound...
doubling the weight also exponentially increases destructive power in a collision
sooo, to answer original question... No point!