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Burning Gas Pollutes So Much, Dirty EV Battery Manufacturing Evens Out In About 2 Years
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That's still 4 times more than I have spent on my last 12 cars with exception of one crazy nice Audi I had that ran me 7500 lol. And I regret spending that much on a car, despite loving the 400hp fire breathing V8 under the hood. I honestly mainly drive motorcycles, which has been the cheapest way for me to reduce my carbon footprint. I get over 50 mpg on my cruiser and near 80 on my dual sport, and both my motorcycles + my Subaru + my jeep all cost less than one POS chevy bolt LOL. I understand I'm a special case because I work on my vehicles so it's very cheap for me to own a beater, if I didnt have the ability to make all my own repairs and have shop cost on parts and stuff i might consider an EV more strongly but its just way too expensive for now even factoring in what i spend on fuel and repairs.
Seems like EV incentives would be a great help for a purchaser like you. As long as EVs are a niche product for the motivated few, there won’t be much of as used market. The fastest way to develop a healthy used market is higher growth for new cars, then wait a few years. Incentives goose the market for new, but also lay the groundwork for a larger used car market in a few years
I suppose ur right about that. Of all the things for me to complain about my tax money going to, EV incentives should be pretty low on the list lol.
Our tax money goes toward an almost infinite number of places and no one agrees with all of them, but speeding up the transition to a modern economy based on renewable energy, bringing both existing companies and customers along, should be a positive thing for most people.
For me, it’s right up there with feeding the starving, reducing poverty, public health, intervening in medical disasters, maintaining a solid safety net for all citizens
Where the heck do you live where you can get a car for 3-4k? Last car I bought was 10k for 130,000 miles on it and the one car I saw for 5k was high mileage, absolutely disgusting on the inside, and false advertised to the point that I could not trust it didn't have major issues.
If you want a good car under 3 grand it takes elbow grease. My current Subaru I bought for 3k, I used the proceeds from my previous vehicle to purchase. My previous vehicle was a 800$ Xterra, blown radiator but ran. Did water pump, timing belt, radiator, thermostat, valve cover gaskets and a set of tires + ac high pressure line. That was just under a grand, so into for 1800ish and sold for 2800. Before that I had a e36 that I bought for 2500 bucks needed cooling system work as well, put like 600 bucks of parts in it and beat the fucking brakes off it clutch kicking and drifting all over creation from 140k -> 200k miles and sold for 2500. My 87 jeep was 1500 bucks with a cracked head on a 4.2 carbed amc engine because somebody left water in it over winter, 3 speed automatic. Got a 70k miles engine, 5 speed manual and transfer case out of an 02 for 800 bucks (pulled myself out of a rotted tj, brought over the PCM and wiring harness as well and merged harnesses) and stabbed that in. Had to fabricate my own transmission mount and skid plate for it and after a set of used 33s, winch, etc I'm into it for about 4k. All of these vehicles have been rot free, and purchased all in New England! If you ever want tips on finding a good cheap vehicle, and tips on how to make repairs feel free to reach out. Shits too expensive to gate keep knowledge these days, and the only way to cheap transport is to buy broken and put some sweat equity in. Of course I enjoy this shit so it's easier for me to spend weekends bruising knuckles and hanging parts than somebody doing purely out of necessity! I have owned 6 motorcycles, only one of them cost me more than 1k. All were purchased as heaps and revived then sold for a mint. If your able bodied and broke you have nothing but opportunity just gotta dial a skill in and get after it!
I work on my own vehicles as well. I'm looking forward to my first oil change at 100k miles, lol. With gas at $4/gal and paying 14.48¢/kWh, I'm getting 107 mpg equivalent dollar for dollar not even hyper-mileing. As far as long term costs go, I'm expecting to get 250k miles out of my batteries and if the Bolt doesn't last that long, I'll repurpose the batteries into a whole home battery backup. Even then, if there's a battery swap that becomes available to her a faster fast charge, I may turn my bolt's battery pack into a home battery pack sooner. I'd much rather reuse what I got than recycle