When lower-income households face affordability barriers, it’s not just their problem – it’s the missing link to achieving a full switch to electric vehicles.
Honestly, I live in a mostly rural area. It’s 40 miles to the biggest large town/city, I’m 15 minutes to a grocery store. I’m lucky to work from home, but before that, I worked 20 minutes away. Even something with only an 80 mile range would do what I need it to do, so long as I can charge in public. I wouldn’t like having that range, but I’d take it. IF IT DIDN’T COST AS MUCH AS A SHITTY HOUSE. Seriously, give us some cheap EVs that people can upgrade from later on and sell in the secondary market so poor folk like me can buy the equivalent of 98 Toyota Corolla.
Nope. I happily drove a geo metro, and I longed for a smart car for year. That particular vehicle isn’t available in the US, either. But thanks for the assumption!
Look at us, being all nice to each other and understanding and shit! The fediverse really does bring out the best in us reddit expats, doesn’t it?
And yeah, nah. Giant ass trucks abound for sure. A big part of that is our stupid ass laws, but also there’s absolutely a culture of it. I drive the smallest truck we could find, a Nissan frontier, and the year model I have is twice the size of the one from a decade prior. It’s insane. But we had to have either a truck or van to transport my mom’s power wheelchair, and the vans are just simply so far outside our price range as to not even be worth considering. Even second hand. Hell, I found several with no motors in them that were still far too expensive.
Honestly, I live in a mostly rural area. It’s 40 miles to the biggest large town/city, I’m 15 minutes to a grocery store. I’m lucky to work from home, but before that, I worked 20 minutes away. Even something with only an 80 mile range would do what I need it to do, so long as I can charge in public. I wouldn’t like having that range, but I’d take it. IF IT DIDN’T COST AS MUCH AS A SHITTY HOUSE. Seriously, give us some cheap EVs that people can upgrade from later on and sell in the secondary market so poor folk like me can buy the equivalent of 98 Toyota Corolla.
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Nope. I happily drove a geo metro, and I longed for a smart car for year. That particular vehicle isn’t available in the US, either. But thanks for the assumption!
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I’m gonna go ahead and apologize for being snippy. I had just woken up, and I’ve got a fever. Think I misread your intent a bit.
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Look at us, being all nice to each other and understanding and shit! The fediverse really does bring out the best in us reddit expats, doesn’t it?
And yeah, nah. Giant ass trucks abound for sure. A big part of that is our stupid ass laws, but also there’s absolutely a culture of it. I drive the smallest truck we could find, a Nissan frontier, and the year model I have is twice the size of the one from a decade prior. It’s insane. But we had to have either a truck or van to transport my mom’s power wheelchair, and the vans are just simply so far outside our price range as to not even be worth considering. Even second hand. Hell, I found several with no motors in them that were still far too expensive.
I don’t believe I have ever seen a Dacia on the road in North America.
The options to buy a smaller EV are extremely limited here.