Bedlam wrote:
My driving commute is 10 miles per day with an additional 40 miles daily via bus. However once a week I have a 125 mile driving commute. I could use a BEV, but purchase cost still does not compensate for usage. My wife drives a compact ICE vehicle about 7500 miles year and I still cannot get the economics of a BEV to work in her case either.
I see us buying a BEV once prices drop on them or increase too much for an ICE. I drive a 15 year old vehicle while my wife’s is five years old. Both will probably stay with us for 5-10 more years before we consider replacing them.
I think this is a very real world scenario and is literally being played out in our townhouse community everyday. Some of us have made the switch but many are waiting until their existing vehicles need replacing. A lot of the folks in our townhouse community have come to look at our EV’s, check out our garage charging facilities, sometimes even ask for a test drive. Pretty much every one has said they would never buy another gas or diesel car but will wait until their car is a little older or worn out until they switch to a BEV. For many folks this makes good sense. Different budgets, different commutes all come into play but it is interesting to hear the various approaches to the migration to BEV’s. Having said that we have very few trucks in our community. The response would obviously be different if there was a towing or hauling need. But cars, we just saw another older Volvo get replaced by another model 3 Tesla last week. They are delivering something like 60 to 90 a day in the Vancouver delivery centre right now.
