Had a similar conversation with my wife, that the electric car push is just gaslighting. No average person can afford them, they make you out to be a baby polar bear murderer. $100-250k for an electric Kia, when I can buy a couple of twin turbo Kia Stingers for that.
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Over 100K?! We bought a KIA EV last week, was only about 80K and the government will pay for about half of it over the next three years because it's salary sacrifice value is 100% because it's an EV. But yeah, we're not in it because we believe we'll save baby polar bears 🤣😅 We're in it because unless the regulatory environment changes, we can probably sell it in three years for more than we pay for it after government write off's 😏 Hubby has been paying enough in taxes to the Aus government for long enough that we don't even feel bad.
Don't get me wrong, the idea of an electric car is interesting to me, that's why the wife and I are taking about it. The cost can be or can seem prohibitive without, as you mention, some sort of government insensitive.
Even for 80k, I can buy two petrol vehicles.
They are interesting for sure. A very different driving experience. I'm still getting used to all the new car "safety" stuff. We can do it because we have solar panels and live in the city. There's plenty of places it wouldn't work and lots of people it wouldn't work for. If it weren't for the investment opportunity it presents we wouldn't have bought it.
Im all for having the choice man, don't get me wrong. If it suits your needs , go for it. At the end of the day , the end users of EVs largely arent driving this.
Totally agree, not buying an ev anytime soon.
The markets should have been left alone to drive it. There would be many less EVs in the world still if governments weren't incentivising and pushing them. It's not the governments job to push that on everyone. It used to annoy me too and still does to an extent, we just decided we could profit from it while denying the government income revenue.
This is the ev my wife was talking about.
https://www.drive.com.au/news/kia-ev9-price-and-specs-australia/
Do you need 7 seats? We got the EV6 GT Line RWD (RWD goes further off one charge and has more frunk space than AWD). Even with a few extras it came under the luxury vehicle tax price. On a novated lease we don't pay the $7K in GST either.
Just window shopping on what's out there. The rwd gt sounds like a nice fun car though.