[Skybird]

Every six months, they say, a new battery generation gets iout of the bloick, that emans the most costly item aboard electric cars looses its value in record time. When people try to resellt heir old cars after 4, 5 years, they will curse.

This, and the still not really practical range these cars have under real world conditions , and in countries the almost non existinmg infrastructure for electric charging, imo make it a silly decision to buy such a car. Makes sense only, maybe for companies doing dsriving businesses withoin limited city perimeters.

In Germany, sales are hilariously low, although there is a state-support program of 4000 Euros per car. People just do not want these things so far. 4000 Euros cannot compensate for lackign range and lacking charging - and those there are, have a multitude of various standards. And there are four dozen card-payment models for them. that yiou have two or three such cards doe snot mean that oyu can use them for payment at the charging station you happened to have found...

Diesel seesm to be a past thing as well, so: if needing a car now, still go normal gas, I say. I would not buy an electric car now.

BTW, there are model calculations showing that electric cars in no way are so much more ecologic like is claimed, when you consider the ecologic costs of their production as well. Especially the Tesla cars, often claimed to be the spearhead of development, score especially bad amongst electric car brands when it comes to calculate not just running costs, but the ecologic fingerprint of production as well.

There is quite some surrogate religion in all this.