• bountygiver [any]@lemmy.ml
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      7 days ago

      Unless your job involves driving >100km DAILY, current EVs are perfectly fine at achieving that with just in home charging without any fancy installations.

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        I drive about 145km every day I go into work. The EVs I see $5000 or less can barely get me to work if even that.

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          7 days ago

          This is what people often ignore, usually only new vehicles are compared. You can get 1600 km on a tank of diesel in a 2000 euro car and refuelling is quick anyway. Cheap used EVs have not gotten there yet.

          A lot of people can start driving EVs when a used EV is cheap AND gets you proper range. I don’t mean comparable to diesel, but like 400 km of range in a vehicle at 5k EUR and I reckon nearly everyone driving used cars will start looking at used EVs.

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          If you can charge at work you might only have to go a little above that price range to just comfortably get to work. If not tho that’s rough