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How about not charging 5 years salary of the average people for a car.
Cash for clunkers2.0
It would be a good move, provided that it’s also associated with rules to stop making huge gas-guzzling trucks as a single-person commuter vehicle.
Do I get paid if I replace my car with a bicycle? No?
Then this doesn’t seem to be about reducing pollution so much as handing tax money to car makers.A lot of cities have started programs which do in fact pay people to move to an ebike.
EV’s are capitalism’s solution to the climate crisis. In other words, they are worthless, except to car-manufacture executives. Invest in public transportation and bike accessibility.
I mean you’re right.
You can do both…
The majority of my driving is for hiking actually, so public transport wouldn’t help me
I could keep driving my same car for another 5 years, at the cost of about $150 month plus odd repairs, or I can pay $300/ month for something new. I have big worries about the cost of battery repairs as well.
I really want to adopt an EV, but my clunker is super cheap to drive and easy to fix.
At some point you end up needing an expensive repair and the price calculus changes.
Eventually, yeah. If I add a new motor and clutch over that time the cost goes up to $200/month. I’m still not high enough to justify the cost of a new car with increased insurance and taxes.
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I’ll keep my hybrid and wait for the solid state battery.
They are paying you to throw away probably the biggest plastic thing you own. How thoughtful.
Here’s the thing: the bulk of the climate damage cars do happens during operations.
Replacing fossil-fuel-burning ones with ones which don’t burn fossil fuels is a net win for any car that’s actually driven several times per week.
It’s better to get people onto bikes, ebikes, or mass transit, but those won’t work for 100% of the population.
Or just invest in public transit instead of more cars?
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