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I hope to follow when I purchase my next car here in Ohio. There's a new brand -- "Fisker" -- that's coming out with seriously reasonably priced electric vehicles. I'm going to be watching them closely.

Exciting stuff! I don't drive a ton ( ~1500 miles / yr tops ) so my emissions output isn't huge, but I think it will feel good to curb even my small driver's footprint.

I hope we look back on this time for vehicles fondly. I think we're coming up on the inflection point fast :)

It'll be a little melancholy for me as I like hot rodding. But I've already said that the moment they come out with an electric conversion kit, I'll have my car done right away. To hell with it, it'd be an awesome conversation piece.

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1500 mi/yr is nothing, definitely not worth the cost of a new car! Consider many modern cars and especially EVs are expected to last well over 200k mi. The car will rust away before you hit 30k mi.

It's impressive to be voluntarily low car in Ohio considering the sorry state of transit and bike infrastructure in Ohio's cities. Pretty difficult with the exception of Cleveland's core.

If carshare is unavailable and you really want an EV, I would look at the last generation EVs - used Kia Niro, Chevy Bolt, Hyundai Kona, Hyundai Ioniq (old hatchback, not the 5 or 6), VW eGolf, or a Nissan Leaf if you have a spot to charge.

Many of the older models will be under $25,000 used and therefore eligible for an income restricted $4,000 federal tax credit.

Took a look through auto trader and there's quite a few used EVs in Ohio that would near $10k with the tax credit.

Curious what your primary transportation is - bike or ebike?

At 1500 miles a year I'd be seriously documenting what I need the vehicle for, and what other options are available, such as car share, taxi, rentals, or even that $19 pickup at Home Depot if one is near you.

Financial decision aside, buying a _whole new car_ when you drive so little will never offset anything. The sheer amount of greenhouse gases emitted and materials consumed will never be offset.

You need to keep to keep the old car. Unless you're straight up rolling coal, the most ecological car is the car that never gets produced. If you absolutely need to buy something, just buy something like a Citroën Ami (https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36351549/citroen-e...) (well, it's not actually allowed in the US, but that kind of car is what you need.)

1500 miles/yr, are you sure buying a car is the best financial decision?

> I hope we look back on this time for vehicles fondly. I think we're coming up on the inflection point fast :)

Tesla is selling more cars in California (world's fifth largest economy) than Toyota [1]. I think we're already there.

[1] https://electrek.co/2023/07/25/tesla-now-outsells-toyota-in-...

> but I think it will feel good to curb even my small driver's footprint.

No if you drive so little, buying ANY car is going to increase your driver's footprint, by a lot.

Fisker's been around for a while! I didn't know they were back.

Here's an article from 2012 about a $100,000 model they made:

https://news.yahoo.com/news/justin-bieber-birthday-got-fiske...

The current Fisker isn't that Fisker though they have the same founder

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