I don’t know a single person who says that their next new car will be ICE, but I don’t know either a lot of people able to afford a new car. Most people over here (France) buy used except if they’re old and rich, the average age of individuals buying brand new cars is around 60 years old.
And the problem is people above 60 years old are quite difficult to convince to go electric as they have a full happy boomer life behind with ICE cars.
(Individuals are around half the sales of new cars I’d say, the rest are companies and rentals that buy new and resell after a few years, and for now they haven’t made the switch.)
But if these people don’t buy electric, there won’t be electric cars on second hand market for us normal people.
It been at the equivalent of over $2.50 CAD all year here.
But electricity has only recently dipped below $0.50. We’re a while off people without home charging switching for cost reasons, since that’s as expensive as fuel.
Luxury tax?? Don’t buy a luxury car. Ev’s are getting affordable now.
Ever actually fill out a spreadsheet of your operating cost per mile? I did. A full size trades van needs over $100,000 in fuel over 400,000km. The same electric is around $20,000 in electricity.
Gas is still too cheap. Our whole society is based on cheap gas. Our urban sprawl is from cheap gas. Then environment is changing because of cheap gas. It has to stop, the negative externalities are too great.
Doing a conversion it is 1.11CAD/L here in CO for gas, very inexpensive, but we have a good amount of EVs anyway as Denver is a very centralized city IMO. Thankfully decent charging in a lot of the state especially once Tesla chargers are open to all.
Fuel is $1.80-$2.00/L CAD for regular here. We have seen $2.50. I don’t know a single person who says that their next car will be ICE.
1.29 cad here, we peaked around 2.
Where is Gas in canada still $2/l?
I don’t know a single person who says that their next new car will be ICE, but I don’t know either a lot of people able to afford a new car. Most people over here (France) buy used except if they’re old and rich, the average age of individuals buying brand new cars is around 60 years old.
And the problem is people above 60 years old are quite difficult to convince to go electric as they have a full happy boomer life behind with ICE cars.
(Individuals are around half the sales of new cars I’d say, the rest are companies and rentals that buy new and resell after a few years, and for now they haven’t made the switch.)
But if these people don’t buy electric, there won’t be electric cars on second hand market for us normal people.
It’s still $2.60 a gallon in Texas.
It been at the equivalent of over $2.50 CAD all year here.
But electricity has only recently dipped below $0.50. We’re a while off people without home charging switching for cost reasons, since that’s as expensive as fuel.
Yes home charging is huge. Here we have $0.14/kWh CAD power and they say we are getting a even cheaper night rate from midnight to 6am for charging.
I mean yes but when you add all the costs and luxury tax of EV you are back to same cost just changes when your are paying it.
Luxury tax?? Don’t buy a luxury car. Ev’s are getting affordable now.
Ever actually fill out a spreadsheet of your operating cost per mile? I did. A full size trades van needs over $100,000 in fuel over 400,000km. The same electric is around $20,000 in electricity.
Gas is still too cheap. Our whole society is based on cheap gas. Our urban sprawl is from cheap gas. Then environment is changing because of cheap gas. It has to stop, the negative externalities are too great.
Doing a conversion it is 1.11CAD/L here in CO for gas, very inexpensive, but we have a good amount of EVs anyway as Denver is a very centralized city IMO. Thankfully decent charging in a lot of the state especially once Tesla chargers are open to all.