I’m currently learning to drive but I think, unfortunately, my first car will be ICE.
I live in a rented flat, so no way I can install a charging point.
The prices of the paid charging points near me mean that it’s close to parity with petrol here (UK).
The insurance on EVs is much higher than ICE at the moment, this is doubly important because as a new driver I’ll be paying a lot for the next 2 to 3 years.
I’ll be looking into various different vehicles when I’ve passed my practical test so I’m not ruling EVs or PHEVs yet, but it’s looking unlikely.
Understandable. Consider that one of the biggest things you can do is just buy a smaller vehicle. I gave up my car about 12 years ago, but I’m considering buying something like a Vespa now for errands around town. They get 90+ mpg! If you can’t go that small, just try not to buy bigger than what you need for 90% of trips.
For the last decade I’ve mostly rented vehicles for trips to the coast and things like that. Even if I did that once a month it would be far cheaper than owning a car. I recommend this route to anyone who doesn’t want to buy more car than they need.
Look, nothing wrong with an ICE especially starting off. Ease up on use, drive safe and swap when you are able. Don’t take on the worlds problems when you aren’t even secure in yourself yet - leave those sacrifices for us until you can.
This is one of the exceptions I still give, however, look into hybrid options. Newer hybrid can really reduce your emissions (and petrol bill). Even used ones are still pretty decent
I can totally understand that, I think its not a wise option to buy a new ICE car, but a cheap used older car can be a good option until you are able to buy an EV.
I have an ICE car as well, because it just didnt make sense for me to buy an EV a few years ago, I couldnt afford it and there wasnt a suitable one available in Germany.
I do use my bike quite a lot, so I dont think its too bad.
I’m currently learning to drive but I think, unfortunately, my first car will be ICE.
I’ll be looking into various different vehicles when I’ve passed my practical test so I’m not ruling EVs or PHEVs yet, but it’s looking unlikely.
Understandable. Consider that one of the biggest things you can do is just buy a smaller vehicle. I gave up my car about 12 years ago, but I’m considering buying something like a Vespa now for errands around town. They get 90+ mpg! If you can’t go that small, just try not to buy bigger than what you need for 90% of trips.
For the last decade I’ve mostly rented vehicles for trips to the coast and things like that. Even if I did that once a month it would be far cheaper than owning a car. I recommend this route to anyone who doesn’t want to buy more car than they need.
My Honda Metropolitan gets one hundred and seventeen MPG.
https://lemmy.world/post/7449419
Look, nothing wrong with an ICE especially starting off. Ease up on use, drive safe and swap when you are able. Don’t take on the worlds problems when you aren’t even secure in yourself yet - leave those sacrifices for us until you can.
This is one of the exceptions I still give, however, look into hybrid options. Newer hybrid can really reduce your emissions (and petrol bill). Even used ones are still pretty decent
I can totally understand that, I think its not a wise option to buy a new ICE car, but a cheap used older car can be a good option until you are able to buy an EV.
I have an ICE car as well, because it just didnt make sense for me to buy an EV a few years ago, I couldnt afford it and there wasnt a suitable one available in Germany.
I do use my bike quite a lot, so I dont think its too bad.