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Can you tell me which EV I can buy for £3k which is the budget I had for my last car?
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Thanks for making my point for me.
I’m not trying to be an eco warrior and I doubt a lot of people who own evs on this thread are either. I just bought an EV because it was the right choice for my family when we required a car. Why does that make you so angry?
It seems you and a few others are saying that I should either walk / cycle everywhere or just get a 90s v8 Jag because it already exists.
Then, you want to talk about road accidents (Tesla being the safest car per mile on the planet right now) and close passes (FSD development being a positive step here too) like all people and vehicles are equal. Or congestion and parking like I have control over the last 100 years of planning policy.
It’s odd because I don’t see anyone from this thread over in the cars thread questioning Dammits new diesel VW bus (replacing a V8 Mercedes he owned for a year, which replaced a v8 Mercedes) or someone lusting after a Land Rover defender etc etc.
It all just seems like really wasted energy to me… No pun intended
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We still see traffic, the lived environment taken up with parking, close passes, engineered obsolescence, conspicuous consumption, road traffic accidents, increased road building, non walkable communities, negatively impacted public transport
Exactly. The negative impacts of private car ownership and use go way beyond NO2 and the 30% of particulate emissions that come from the exhaust. (The rest is from brake and tyre wear). EVs are a continuation of the status quo dressed up as a solution.
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Why do you keep telling us about your recently leased V6 diesel range rover, that apparently you only got rid of because there was no option to buy, it does not boost your eco credentials.
There's lots of ways that electric cars are better than petrol. There's lots of ways they're the same. To some of us the latter outweighs the former. We still see traffic, the lived environment taken up with parking, close passes, engineered obsolescence, conspicuous consumption, road traffic accidents, increased road building, non walkable communities, negatively impacted public transport. It's great that you're no longer sending diesel particulate straight into people's lungs but it's not enough to put your choice into a significantly different category.