I bought it used; the car is ~10 years old, now (still works great and has a much higher resale value than your typical 10 year old car). I have never bought a new car in my life, so I am not really in a position to comment on relative prices of new cars, but they seem quite similar to me, keeping in mind that the electric car manufacturers seem to have been targeting a slightly up-market demographic in general. You also need to consider that electric cars are much cheaper to run than an equivalent petrol car.
It’s weird how we have to have these silly discussions where people must know that they’re obviously wrong before commenting.
I agree . . . oh wait, you think I'm the one who is wrong. How bizarre.
The average car lasts about 12 years. Sure some collectors cars will be kept running for decades, but it will take about less than 2 decades to replace essentially all cars if we only made EVs. Only selling EVs is the law set to take effect in a few years.
I'm sure that the law will be rolled back a little when one of the 5-10% usecases where EVs don't work screams loud enough (probably shipping and remote areas), but it will become hard to find fuel for your gas car in a couple decades.
To get to 100% EV usage, yes. In the US, we're already at 5.5% sales of all cars are BEVs, up from a year ago at 3.1%, up from 1% two years ago. In just 5 years a sizable portion of American cars will be BEV, which will create demand for charging and grid usage, which will accelerate the shift. In markets with lots of Tesla adoption, there's already a robust used Tesla market.
It’s weird how we have to have these silly discussions where people must know that they’re obviously wrong before commenting.
Replacing 1.3 billion cars is going to take decades.