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Our second car is a plug-in but l hybrid for road trips. Agree, that’s a useful case for ICE, but that car costs us far more to drive than our EV.
90% of personal driving (I’m ballpark guessing) is in town and can be handled by charging an EV overnight every few days by most drivers - doesn’t even have to be nightly.
At least in the US there are not good options though. Since a minivan is the right vehcile for our family we get a new id.buzz, or for half the price a used pacifica (which we were lucky to find at all). Everything else is ICE. I don’t know how anyone can afford a new car - I make more than the average person and the payments on the used minivan are already hard.
Our second car is a plug-in but l hybrid for road trips. Agree, that’s a useful case for ICE, but that car costs us far more to drive than our EV.
90% of personal driving (I’m ballpark guessing) is in town and can be handled by charging an EV overnight every few days by most drivers - doesn’t even have to be nightly.
At least in the US there are not good options though. Since a minivan is the right vehcile for our family we get a new id.buzz, or for half the price a used pacifica (which we were lucky to find at all). Everything else is ICE. I don’t know how anyone can afford a new car - I make more than the average person and the payments on the used minivan are already hard.