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Very interesting info about EV costs
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That it's cheaper in the long run may be true for the car and the "fuel" , but if you live in the Netherlands -like me- I can ashure you the government will do anything in it's power to at least nullify that advantage by raising taxes on ownership and road tax. In the end you'l pay the same - or even more- than for your gas guzzler.
If the Dutch government finds out there's a financial gain to be obtained by the population, you'd be amazed how fast they wake up to take it away.
If the Dutch government finds out there's a financial gain to be obtained by the population, you'd be amazed how fast they wake up to take it away.
A picture popped up on my phone a month ago of it said 1000 ev's left in a field that came from a city car share scheme, apparently it was cheaper to just abandon them than and buy new ones due to the cost of new batterys they needed and there's no eV car breakers/recycling yet.
What's the second hand market going to be like for these as petrol cars keep going for many years and keep going until they become unroad worthy in a lot of case's and 20+ years old.
What's the second hand market going to be like for these as petrol cars keep going for many years and keep going until they become unroad worthy in a lot of case's and 20+ years old.
Good reason for not buying a second hand EV.
Owner blows up his Tesla in protest at £17,000 cost of replacing the battery in Finland | Daily Mail Online
Also on a 300 mile trip to Cornwall in October we saw two broken down EVs - both the same model - the BMW i3. Both cars had 2020 registrations so were not old cars. Interestingly my daughter who also travelled to Cornwall on the next day, via a different route also saw a broken down BMW i3 on the way down.
Not a good sign.
Owner blows up his Tesla in protest at £17,000 cost of replacing the battery in Finland | Daily Mail Online
Also on a 300 mile trip to Cornwall in October we saw two broken down EVs - both the same model - the BMW i3. Both cars had 2020 registrations so were not old cars. Interestingly my daughter who also travelled to Cornwall on the next day, via a different route also saw a broken down BMW i3 on the way down.
Not a good sign.
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A collegue of mine bougt a second hand electric car, don't ask me for the brand, I do not know. But after a couple of weeks it broke down due to one of the batteries was broken. They told him the whole battery package had to be replaced ....6000 euro!
The only electric car I drive is the bumper car at the local fair.
The only electric car I drive is the bumper car at the local fair.
there is a very interesting documentary done by the al jazzera news network on the massive amounts of copper and other rare earth metals(and the massive open cast pit mines that they create) such as lithium,cobalt etc that these EVs are requiring
they certainly arent as good as they make out
they certainly arent as good as they make out
I like this electric car recycling method as it is ordnance related.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-tesla-owner-blow-model-161712290.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watch-tesla-owner-blow-model-161712290.html
Ah, now for a lesson in Dutch environmental awareness;
A - "look at me being extremely green and environmental aware".
B - "Eh well, your being green destroys the environment on another place on earth irriversable."
A - "Sttt, we are very green over here, I'm not talking about over there"
And so in the Netherlands we quited using clean natural gas and have the woods in louisianan and estland chopped down and shipped over here to burn them in our electric powerplants.