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and lease more for the same addition.

Is that right? I think in 2022 you will have a 16% addition and electric cars are significantly more expensive than similarly decorated petrol models. So depending on what you’re looking for, it can be a bit disappointing.

Your other advantage was the lack of BPM on electric cars, but because batteries are quite expensive, that advantage has become very small to non-existent. In fact, BPM is in many cases cheaper than the additional cost of batteries.

In addition, there are some brands that have discovered how you can have very low CO2 emissions with a gasoline engine, also with 184 HP, such as Toyota (hybrid without plug) and Mazda (Skyactiv-X), making the BPM very low. can grab. So in many cases with a petrol car, if you choose the right brands, you get much more value (decoration) for your money than an electric car. There are, of course, negative exceptions.

So you can lease a little more for the same addition, financially, but you have to buy a much more expensive car to keep up with it in terms of decoration. Good examples of this are ID.3 and ID.4, which are packed with significant budget cuts, such as far fewer speakers, a lot of hard plastic, a lot of wind noise inside, cheap seats, cheap suspension and so on. Compared to the ‘normal’ VAG cars, they are therefore quite disappointing. A Golf is significantly more luxurious, even a Polo is more luxurious in many respects and those are cars with a relatively high BPM and a very high price in relation to the total market, grab a Mazda 3 and you’ll be shocked by the big difference in luxury and decoration for the money. There is therefore no objective reason to go for electric. Even for the environment that is questionable, because you have to drive more than 80,000 km with your ID.3 to make up for the difference compared to a modern petrol car, due to the high emissions and pollution in the production of the batteries, especially in the case of VAG. After all, these batteries are more polluting than those of the competition.

For example, I share your finding that leasing electric cars is not interesting and I dare to say that the situation is even worse for electric cars than most people think.

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