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0 pointsbryanlarsen2y ago0 comments

If you could have waited 6-12 months you could have got a Kia EV9. Toyota, Volvo, Ford and GM have also promised 3 row SUV's in the next year or two.

5 seater mini-SUV's are the main profit driver in the market so it's not surprising they started there. It was more surprising 5 years ago when basically all you could get for EV's were small cars.

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emilecantin2y ago

I was driving my mother-in-law's Honda Civic. I couldn't wait 6 months, I needed a car NOW. I called up the dealership in the morning after seeing a Pacifica in stock on their website, and I was rolling off the lot with it that very same afternoon.

There's always something "just over the corner", but my previous vehicle buy was in 2021 and the options were the exact same... I will seriously consider a EV9 (and the VW ID.Buzz) once I can test-drive one. I haven't seen any prices for any of these yet, though. If they're 150k CAD I just can't afford it, so they'll join the Tesla X, the Volvo whatever90 and the Rivians of this world.

Also, why don't they make minivans? It's people I need to move; 3-row SUVs are awful for that. Kia should've electrified their new Carnival when they refreshed it.

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