Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by shas3 on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:01PM
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Honestly you can take the $10k+ difference and donate it to charity or save it up for your kid's college, if you have children. $10k can buy malaria nets for 4000 kids in Africa, if you donate to some place like Against Malaria Foundation. At the moment, I don't see any altruistic outcome from buying EVs. Personally, I am also against using any non-economic arguments in choosing cars, unless you are really rich and the difference is only a drop in the bucket.
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Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by regulation_d on Friday May 19, 2017 @12:56PM
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Part of the equation is that, conceivably, it's a good thing to give Tesla or whoever enough money to iterate on the things they're designing, so that through the iterations they can make them cheaper.
Re:America’s Cars Are Getting Faster and More Efficient
by ido on Saturday May 20, 2017 @03:19AM
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The cynic in me would say that saving 4000 African children would actually adversely affect the environment, where as supporting development of electric vehicles is at worst trivially beneficial.