I’ve never owned a car before in my life. I might need to one soon. Budget is $40k. Here are the things I’m considering:
- I want to go all-electric
- Not Tesla because fuck Elon.
- Requires as little maintenance as possible.
- Has the lowest environmental impact (both in terms of construction of the vehicle and in terms of energy use) as possible
Maybe a chevy bolt, mini’s ev models, or a nissan leaf.
If you’re fine with plug in hybrids, you could also look at prius prime. It has a 44 mile ev only range and switches to hybrid when the battery runs out.
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Don’t take this as a fact but I think buying a not so old but not recent diesel might be the best choice. I have an old VW Golf 6 from 2010. All it requires is yearly service and thats it. It does around 5l/100km depending on where you’re driving and how.
Somebody needs to do the math but I think buying a used one makes the least amount of environmental impact vs a new one even if you take into account the worse efficency of older cars.
As for gas vs diesel vs electric, you gotta do the math yourself, I’m to lazy :)