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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by rightbyte on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:32AM (#32211754)
The main cost for cheap 2nd hand cars is the fuel in my experience. So you can have a cheap fuel commuter car and a "real" car for trips and towing your boat.

Requires parking for two cars though. But since we are talking about an EV it requires a house anyways since most apartments have no charging.

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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by iasay on Sunday July 24, 2022 @06:09AM (#32211910)
Yeah but you can manage the fuel within your cash flow. Difficult to get credit and manage the purchase of a large expensive car. And having two cars is too expensive as well.
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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by jsjohnst on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:26AM (#32213291)
> And having two cars is too expensive as well.

Maybe so, but the average American family has about 2 cars. Lots of sources for that, but here’s one from top of search results:

https://housegrail.com/how-many-cars-does-the-average-americ...

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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by iasay on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:31AM (#32213338)
America is not the world and is not the entire market.
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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by jsjohnst on Monday July 25, 2022 @07:59AM (#32223165)
> America is not the world and is not the entire market.

Show me where I said or even implied that? Why must you argue and pick battles with everyone? Maybe time for a break?

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Re:Ford's answer to EV supply chain hell: Cheaper batteries by rightbyte on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:06AM (#32212240)
True. The setup kinda requires that you need two cars in the first place.
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