Anyone like me living with no garage, driveway or dedicated parking wanting and EV but holding off?

  • MachKeinDramaLlama@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I rent a parking spot, but only because everyone warned me that the curbside parking situation would be terrible when I moved here. Honestly in that regard it doesn’t make much of a difference that my new car is an EV. I fully expected to have a wallbox installed, but ended up not bothering to do it.

    I don’t visit petrol stations to buy fuel anymore, I just move my car to a curbside charger down the street when I have to. Though that isn’t actually necessary all that often, since I can just charge at the shopping center, my employer etc. Recently I charged while we were going for a sunday stroll around the lakes.

  • psaux_grep@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Used to be in that camp. When it’s right it’s right.

    I’ve seen people buy when they weren’t ready and it just becomes a burden to charge.

  • 0gopog0@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I have a place I could park it, I have a place to charge it, but it really doesn’t make finacial sense to purchase one.

    I currently carpool to work 3 days a week, take the bus on the others, and my car is a small hatchback. Most of the limited driving I do tends to be longer distances, with the previous trip I took managing 5.5L/100km (43mpg). Even assuming a higher price of driving, I’ve done the math on currently available options, and the savings never actually materialize for my use of a vehicle with the range I want from a vehicle.

    When my current car dies I’m definitely aiming for no less than a PHEV, but not before then.

  • msmug@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    I guess it depends on where you live. If you get one of the many cars that have free charging for x years (Mercedes, Hyundai, Genesis, VW? I think), it’ll be an added bonus. I have never charged my car at home.

    With an egmp car, it feels like going to a gas station to fill up (literally, with the gas stations around me having long wait times to get to the pump, the charge times are sometimes faster).

    On a side note, with charging stations starting to get crowded these days, you also start feeling great when yo usee other egmp cars as you know they will leave soon.

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    10 months ago

    We’re good enough at getting parking alongside our cottage that I think we’ll be able to run a cord out there. Around the corner is a neighbor who’s done this for a couple of years. That’s not our impediment to buying an EV.