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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by smeeth on Monday January 25, 2021 @09:05AM (#25903195)
It’s worth pointing out that the cost of a battery is effectively pre-paying for ~5 years of gas (how much you drive dependent). If you finance your used car (as many do when they buy used from a dealer) the lifetime costs and payment schedule would probably be about equivalent.
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Re:Sales of electric cars up by 43% in 2020 by SwanRonson on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:10AM (#25913587)
“Pre-paying” isn’t in the vocabulary for many though. You seem financially savvy, if you were to randomly sample the market how car buyers do you think have the level of resources and discipline to actually follow through with this?
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