• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    People dont have money to spend on 20-50k€ toys when they can just use public transport or cycle to work. I assume the same is happening with the expensive fossil fuel cars.

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      3 days ago

      That is not the problem.

      It is far more simple than that.

      We are in a recession, people simply don’t have the money to buy a new car, when they can get a used car with a far better value.

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        18 hours ago

        Where I live people have more than enough, but they don’t care for these ridiculous electric SUVs. Make sane cars whose price is justified.

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          18 hours ago

          Yeah, I hate the current SUV and crossover style infecting every car model.

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        3 days ago

        Thats literally what i wrote lol…
        People dont have money, so they will use cheaper alternatives. Thats why i wrote “expensive fossil fuel cars” because its about the price, not the technology. If there were cheap EVs then this wouldnt be happening.

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      3 days ago

      This is about EV demand slowing down.

      But if you can use public transport or cycle to work, you shouldn’t drive a car anyway, EV nor combustion engine. We need less cars in our cities and more public transport imho.