hey...thanx for that. Funny guy..Will I live long enough\drive enough to cover the cost?
slight slide here...
I thought one of the best marketing tools back in the day was Mitsubishi’s 5yr\60k warranty, 10 yr\100,000 power train warranty.
Hyundai\Kia jumped on it also. How many really keep a car 10 years?
I am retired. before I retired, I tried to set-up everything for efficiency as best as I could.
Lights in the whole house inside\out = LED
Hot Water heater is tankless.
Furnace is 98% efficient.
In the scheme of things, I will, in my mind, always need gasoline, so the price of gas really doesn’t matter... So I decided on a hybrid.
Traded in a 2013 Prius C for a more fuel-efficient 2017 Hyundai IoniQ base hybrid-59 mpg.
All things being equal, I expect this is the last car I buy for myself. - bought an extended bumper-bumper warranty.
(My wife has a 2010 Chevy Equinox with about 57k miles on it - out kicking tires for something newer)
Sometimes, in the summer, I can get 62 mpg - for awhile.
both cars paid off. I drive about 7k miles a year - mostly for golf. COVID stay at home probably keeps the milage down.
If we get to a point where an EV would be more efficient, I probably wouldn’t consider it because the trade-off wouldn’t be worth it based on my age and initial cost vs use.
EVs aren’t for everyone in all situations. Neither are gas cars.
Most of the pile-on naysayers are using obsolete objections. Most of the rest are outliers.
Similar arguments happened against digital technology (too expensive, low resolution, like physical media, etc). Then in one year flat customers switched en masse, and the likes of Kodak (where I worked at the time) seemingly folded overnight.
Whatever the objection, modern EVs are ready to go >300 miles every morning, have very little maintenance, and cost ~1/4 per mile. They are quiet, smooth, have incredible acceleration, and are beginning to literally drive themselves. Object however you like, a whole lot of people are about to decide at once that’s better than gas cars.