Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 45% in August 2023 compared to August 2022, rising to 1,238,00 units. In the end, plugins represented 18% share of the overall auto market (with a 13% BEV share alone). This means that […]
  • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    But you can still buy a 20 year old car with 250k on it for really cheap and drive it for the next 10 years till it completely craps itself.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The last thing I would call a 250k mile car driven for another 10 years is “cheap”. Large expensive things will be breaking left and right.

      • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, but people with no choice buy them and ride them till they break. And some take a while to break.

        • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          9 months ago

          In that situation they’d likely be better served with a 250k mile EV and whatever range it has left or purchase of a subpar pack from a wrecked EV of the same model to keep it on the road. EV just have so many fewer moving parts. The moving parts are what wear out over time.