Chiming into the chorus here: haven’t owned a car since 2001. There’s no need. I live in what amounts to a “fifteen minute city” and for those rare things that aren’t within a fifteen minute walk of my home, I have great public transit to use instead. In almost 25 years of living here I think the total number of times I’ve had to use a taxi or hired van or the like to do something that wouldn’t be easily done with public transit have cost me less than 1% the purchase price of an automobile.
So I’ve saved the price of a car, the price of fuel/charging, the price of insurance, the price of maintenance. My lifestyle as a result is much better than it would be if I continued using cars.
(I’ve also calculated that if I took a taxi too and from work daily it would take me five years before the costs of that added up to the price of purchasing—just buying—a car.)
Chiming into the chorus here: haven’t owned a car since 2001. There’s no need. I live in what amounts to a “fifteen minute city” and for those rare things that aren’t within a fifteen minute walk of my home, I have great public transit to use instead. In almost 25 years of living here I think the total number of times I’ve had to use a taxi or hired van or the like to do something that wouldn’t be easily done with public transit have cost me less than 1% the purchase price of an automobile.
So I’ve saved the price of a car, the price of fuel/charging, the price of insurance, the price of maintenance. My lifestyle as a result is much better than it would be if I continued using cars.
(I’ve also calculated that if I took a taxi too and from work daily it would take me five years before the costs of that added up to the price of purchasing—just buying—a car.)