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Less than half of Canadians say they will buy an electric vehicle as their next car: survey
(toronto.ctvnews.ca)
this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2024
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We've been trying to go EV for 20 years. The first obstacle was lack of workspace to convert our little Japanese mini-truck (apartment dwellers).
The next obstacle was cost. We moved to where we had workspace, but then we couldn't afford either the conversion or an equivalently price used Leaf. It's also still a charging desert, with the nearest charger 150 km away and it's not even on the way to anywhere we go often enough to matter.
Then time became an obstacle. Our current vehicles will likely see us to an age where we have to stop driving. Does it make sense to live several years of our retirement as paupers to pay for a decent used EV? We've decided that it doesn't. For our current driving patterns, getting 100km of winter range would cover 50-70 percent of our driving. 50km of winter range would cut that to 20-30 percent. I keep my eye out for something under CA$10k, but haven't seen anything yet.