The Financial Realities of Choosing Between Electric and Traditional Cars in a Climate Crisis

Especially at a time when the effects of the climate crisis are so clearly visible, I find it totally bizarre that there are still people who see financial motivation as the only motivation for their choice.

Sometimes it’s not a choice. You need a car to get to work in situations where public transport is not an alternative, and you don’t have much money for an initial investment. Think of a situation where you live outside the Randstad (because it is cheaper), and your work is also elsewhere outside the Randstad. In such a situation, an ICE is more realistic than an electric one.

Furthermore, the boots theory applicable to electric driving. If you have enough initial money to invest, you can save money (by means of solar panels, own yard to park your car, charging station in the yard to charge your own car, only charge when electricity is cheap and discharge when electricity can be sold at a high price, etc.). The electric car subsidized by Dutch tax money can then be sold second-hand abroad for a good amount after a few years.

Even if you don’t have that initial money and associated matters, then electric is simply not an alternative at the moment. Yes, you can idealistically use money that you don’t have, but at the end of the month there must also be bread on the table and the bills must be paid.

There is a difference between people who can afford something without sacrificing quality of life and who do not, and people who cannot even make that choice due to a lack of financial resources.

[Reactie gewijzigd door The Zep Man op 6 augustus 2023 13:44]

2023-08-06 10:12:30
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