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You could also have $150 K invested in something and earning money during the interval.

I think the low volume on EV boats is a large factor.  You could make a decent boat with say 40 miles range with a Tesla battery and motor.  Boat uses tend to be spread out so you could recharge with 120v off the Marina.  It wouldn't work if you wanted to use it daily.

Seems like it could be a market if they didn't go overboard with the battery.

Inflation will cost you an average of $5200 more this year. 

https://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-cost-americans-5200-extra-food-gas-energy-prices-bloomberg-2022-3

that sucks. feel really bad for all the people who were already struggling to get by as it was before record inflation and price hikes. and this is primarily why the dems are about to get wiped out in the midterms. it's going to be a blood bath.

4 Signs That a Housing Market Crash Is Coming

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/4-signs-that-a-housing-market-crash-is-coming/

obviously, electric prices at the marina would go up as electric boats became numerous

Marinas are pretty good about charging premiums

For sure.

But there are a lot of trailered boats out there.  Those you would charge at your storage facility.  For a lot of folks that's covered self-storage, and for a lot of folks that's their own home/garage.

Still, you'd need to be able to deliver a full charge overnight.  And if the boat's usage capability was only 3-4 hours in a day, that wouldn't suffice for me, or most people I know.  However there are a lot of hardcore skiers/wakeboarders, that only go out for a couple hours per day.

 

At some point there will be an interchangeable battery system, and this would benefit boats more than cars most likely... you'd buy a battery as you would one of those blue rhino LP bottles. 

Boats are a great target for crower six stroke engines.  Lightweight and torque monsters- boats are all about the torque... HP is a misdirection or a poor evaluation of expected performance.

I don't know that battery storage will ever be physically small enough to interchange like that.  The battery banks required for cars, are massive.  I'd imagine they'd have to be similar for boats, in order to provide any reasonable amount of usage time.

Miniaturization of chemical agents doesn't work the same as miniaturization of semiconductors, for example.  There's no Moore's Law that applies to batteries.

Nearly as I can tell, this may reduce oil prices by 3-5%, temporarily, maybe.  So, instead of paying $4.20, maybe you pay $4.

In the city I got it for 3.58 - 41 cents per gallon cheaper than the burbs even less than COSTCO

4 Signs That a Housing Market Crash Is Coming

https://www.fool.com/the-ascent/personal-finance/articles/4-signs-that-a-housing-market-crash-is-coming/

article is kind of suspect imo. In their first point they mention home prices being down 1.8% in Peoria, Illinois and down 5% in Gulfport, Mississippi and that it's not much at the moment. Um. Ok. Home prices are down in areas where people are leaving and new people don't want to move! No kidding! What a shocker!

In their second point they mention Inventory is picking up. It's not picking up. Like at all. People are flat out not listing their homes on the MLS for sale. And in terms of new construction, as soon as builders put stakes in the ground that new inventory is basically gone- often times it's gone before the stakes are even in the damn ground. And with labor shortages and materials shortages- builders of single family homes are not going to be able to probably ever catch up- and because of the crash in 2008- there was an entire decade plus of not enough single family homes being built. And also- with the big national builders- who are the main drivers of new inventory- especially affordable housing in most markets- signing deals with PE assholes to build thousands of homes so that the PE's can turn around and rent them out or package them and sell them or spin that arm of their business off and take it public- that is going to be taking away thousands and thousands of new home inventory from hitting the open market.

Their third point probably doesn't mean much either. 70% in a Fannie Mae survey said it's a bad time to buy a home. Yeah, well no sh*t it's a bad time to buy a house- home prices are surging and out of control due to complete lack of inventory and record demand and inflation has increased prices for materials for everything that goes into building new homes- therefore builders/developers are going to have to increase their prices to sell the house.

Their fourth point on Interest rates are kinda meh too. Interest rates have gone up to to 4%. That's still ridiculously low. Even if they go up to 4.5% or 5% - still pretty damn low. When interest rates on 30 year mortgages start hitting what they were in the 70s and 80s- then we might be in trouble.