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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
My personal experience, FWIW, has only been BEV drivers who wanted the car for either gas savings or cool tech ("Look how fast this Tesla is!"). I don't know a single person who bought an EV at substantial premium for exclusively environmental motivations. Mostly the premium was justified on net savings or performance. Saving the planet was the bonus.
I don't even think this is a bad thing to be honest. It's way easier to motivate people to save money than it is to motivate people to do the right thing.
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This makes perfect sense. In the grand scheme of things, my decision to buy a EV or ICE makes absolutely zero difference. But the extra cash I have to shell out for an EV makes a real difference to me personally.
I'd be willing to consider an EV for a secondary vehicle (which never goes on road trips and seldom ever leaves Winnipeg) but there would have to be a price advantage. I would not pay a premium over the cost of an ICE car.
I listened to a segment on the radio this morning where CBC spoke to EV drivers in northern Manitoba... they talked about the challenges that brings, and how they can't drive to Winnipeg for lack of chargers, etc. and I thought "why would you do that to yourself?" In a world where billionaires zip around on private jets and megayachts, you would take on that much personal sacrifice in terms of cost and limited functionality for an absolutely inconsequential environmental benefit?