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How smaller, more affordable electric cars can accelerate the green transition
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Honestly, I live in a mostly rural area. It's 40 miles to the biggest large town/city, I'm 15 minutes to a grocery store. I'm lucky to work from home, but before that, I worked 20 minutes away. Even something with only an 80 mile range would do what I need it to do, so long as I can charge in public. I wouldn't like having that range, but I'd take it. IF IT DIDN'T COST AS MUCH AS A SHITTY HOUSE. Seriously, give us some cheap EVs that people can upgrade from later on and sell in the secondary market so poor folk like me can buy the equivalent of 98 Toyota Corolla.
I'm up in the mountains and remote too.
Just picked up a secondhand Dacia Spring with a still-200km range for 8k €
Perhaps the problem isn't that you can't get the cars, perhaps it's that you think cars have to be big
I don't believe I have ever seen a Dacia on the road in North America.
The options to buy a smaller EV are extremely limited here.
Nope. I happily drove a geo metro, and I longed for a smart car for year. That particular vehicle isn't available in the US, either. But thanks for the assumption!
I should've used the plural "yous"
I'm gonna go ahead and apologize for being snippy. I had just woken up, and I've got a fever. Think I misread your intent a bit.
I wasn't clear either, sorry. Pretty sure Dacia is part of the Stellantis group of greedy cunts and therefore Dacia would be very much available if there was a market for it where you are
But no, tiny-penis trucks abound!
Look at us, being all nice to each other and understanding and shit! The fediverse really does bring out the best in us reddit expats, doesn't it?
And yeah, nah. Giant ass trucks abound for sure. A big part of that is our stupid ass laws, but also there's absolutely a culture of it. I drive the smallest truck we could find, a Nissan frontier, and the year model I have is twice the size of the one from a decade prior. It's insane. But we had to have either a truck or van to transport my mom's power wheelchair, and the vans are just simply so far outside our price range as to not even be worth considering. Even second hand. Hell, I found several with no motors in them that were still far too expensive.