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Agree Bovril - exactly the same re the Wife’s car here. I presume you’ve got the inside track as to the extraordinary level of industry going on down the road to you and we can rest assured that you are invested heavily as a result.
1500 private jets averaging 13,300 pounds of CO2 per 3 hour flight, will deliver the worlds richest NGOs, governments & elites to decide what you will sacrifice and what they will gain.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1526914231303606272
DW isn't even on this utterly bizarre thread but Aim still has a go at him twice? This place is beyond parody
EV / Hybrid vehicles are currently way to costly vs petrol / diesel cars. In a cost of living crisis, I'm not willing to depart with +30 - 40% extra just to say I drive an electric vehicle (apart from the environment, it's the only benefit I can see because the cars themselves arent better). I prefer efficient fuel petrol / diesel cars for now. The extra I pay in road tax still works out better economically than paying the premium for an electric car, and then charging the thing. That's just me though.
As the research proves, trying to educate people about EV's is like trying to educate wood.
As the research proves, trying to educate people about EV's is like trying to educate wood.
Bovril-Gate,
Well done, thus proving your cognitive bias is working perfectly!!
You paid £28k, but in a few years it will have cost you far more than buying and running the £40k EV, DUH!!!!
Mrs Bovril just bought a new mini soft top £28k…
The electric version was £40k
So there you have it…even though we will be able to afford to employ Gareth Bale as a manservant for 4 weeks when this hits the broker value even we can’t be bothered with the faff of finding EV charging sites… yet.
We live less than 5 miles from AFC HQ
Never mind that he seems to have no empathy for other human beings at all, he can't be a sociopath because he cares so much about the planet. ;)
Well a lot of people don't think so, or there wouldn't be millions of new cars sold every year. 2.3 million new cars sold in the UK in 2019 (pre pandemic numbers for clarity).
But if you're not into new cars, there are over 7000 used EV's on Autotrader alone.
" Analysis conducted by the automotive data company shows that the average amount of money customers pay for a new car rose from £24,383 in February 2008 to £33,559 in February 2018"
This is not the average list price, this is the average of what people actually pay for new cars.
The people buying these new cars can easily get a brand new EV for that money, so clearly they are NOT too expensive for the average buyer of brand new cars.
Isn't logic a wonderful thing!!
Excellent! Thanks for proving the scientific analysis correct! Your cognitive bias is working perfectly!
EV's are cheaper to own than petrol or diesel when you look at TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). In other words, if you buy an EV today, in a few years you will have saved so much that the total cost of owning and running that EV will be less than if you had bought a petrol or diesel.
"Now that the main financial and technological barriers have been removed (more affordable purchase prices, financial incentives, denser network of charging stations), what factors are still blocking widespread adoption of this mode of transportation? A large part of the answer lies in the cognitive biases and shortcuts of car drivers."
“Until now, initiatives related to the energy transition generally focused on the technological and financial barriers to their realization. Psychological factors have been given very little consideration. However, many studies show that individuals do not automatically adopt the behaviors most beneficial for themselves or society, often due to a lack of access to complete information”, explains Mario Herberz, first author of the study and researcher at the Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Laboratory of the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the UNIGE.
“We observed that the participants systematically underestimated the compatibility of electric battery capacities available on the current market with their real needs,” says Tobias Brosch, director of the Consumer Decision and Sustainable Behavior Laboratory and last author of the research.
In other words, consumers wrongly believe that the autonomy of current batteries is not sufficient to cover their daily journeys. This underestimation is substantial, the researchers estimating it at around 30%.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/20052022-cognitive-bias-is-blocking-rise-of-electric-cars/
Time to accept that you are wrong and buy the EV you need, not the fossil fuel burner that you clearly do not need.
(cue the typical BS responses that just prove the above scientific analysis is correct!!)