Sunk cost drives all my decisions - LOL
I’m 72 and drive a well-maintained 2006 Honda Civic and a well-maintained (considering) 1965 MG Midget.. I’ll probably drive them until they die or I die whichever comes first. I’m not defending the practice - it’s just the way I’m wired I guess.
That being said, I’d buy a Tesla if I was in the market for a new car and if they were a little less expensive.
I’m not stuck on ICE like some people. Whatever technology wins out is ok with me - I just don’t like being forced.
Ten years ago I was pissed off that they were trying to regulate incandescent bulbs out of existence - now I’ve pretty much switched over to LED voluntarily.
Same I was in a rage over CFLs and stock piled 100 watt nonhalogens now they mostly sit unused since 1600 lumen LEDs use 11 watts don’t heat up the closet or utility room and last what seems forever. I do use the incans for chicks keeps them warm in the box put a IR dark plate over the bulb so they can sleep and still get the warmth. LED just matured into superior technology.
I fully expect EVs with solid state cells to blow nearly every use case for ICE out of the water. 600+ mile ranges, 20,000+ cycles, 10C or faster charging at superchargers. That’s 6 min or less for a full charge. No one and I mean zero people have a functional oil well and refinery in the back yard or back 40. You can and I do every day charge a Tesla off solar panels above it. Once solid state cells that are fire proof nanoglass based ice is dead. Electric drive units are cheaper and have only one moving part its the batteries that make a EV expensive and in the case of Tesla profit margins. Tesla could let out a $15,000 EV with LFP cells and a 150 mile range. LFP cells can take 3000 cycles to 100% DOD that’s 450,000 miles in a 150 mile EV. Virtually no one commutes more than 40 miles per day the NHTSA has the numbers 96% of all Americans drive less than 30 miles per day total. That’s 5 days between charges for a 150 mile EV. Since you can 240V charge 30 miles on under 2 hours you could charge four EVs over night off a single 30 amp 240V line put them one timers which the software already does for you with schedule charging. That’s technology today LFP cells it only gets better from there. People can rent a car for longer trips which the avg American takes less than two trips per year longer than 400 miles , you rent for edge use cases. That said I have taken my Tesla to Florida a couple of times from Texas never had an issue Tesla has superchargers every 50 miles along the interstates. Stop for 15 min every three hours in the seat is my bladder limit anyways.