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Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss
(www.autoexpress.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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It's not really a matter of realizing what's better. It's about what is cheaper.
At least for me it is. Cheapest even remotely sensible (not immediate batter replacement coming up or anything like that) is around 8-9k€. I could pretty easily get 3-phase charger at home and around our normal commutes there's decent enough infrastructure already in place and specially the 2nd car of the house rarely sees more than 100km per day. So that would be pretty much a perfect use case for EV.
However current Tiida we have for 2nd car was 2k. I can repair it myself and it's relatively easy/cheap to keep running too. With EVs there's potentially expensive faults, high voltage means that home repairs are either very difficult or straight impossible at least without pretty expensive tools. Also in here we have annual inspections and there's news almost weekly how a small dent on battery shielding or something other seemingly minor fault can mean that the whole car is pretty much scrap as replacements are expensive.
And I'm not saying anyone should be careless of HV battery damages or other potentially very dangerous problems. They just are way more expensive to repair than with ICE cars.
So, used EV should last at least two times longer than cheap ICE cars I've used to get in order to make sense financially. Likely more than two, since old conventional cars are pretty simple to keep running. And I'm not quite yet convinced that they can actually keep on going 10 years.