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My entire life I have never paid more than $20K for a vehicle and I have only purchased 1 vehicle from a dealer. Not only do electric vehicles have to be available but they have to be available long enough to trickle down to cheap skates like me.
I bought my 2010 Lexus RX hybrid w 76K about 3 years ago and still love it. My biggest concern was the battery going bad so I did my research first and found that there are a variety of rebuilt batteries available for reasonable prices (They remove only the bad cells and replace them with new cells. The more cells that are on the border line that they replace is reflected in the cost of the rebuilt battery). No way would I ever pay for a new Lexus... new cars just don't make sense to me. I would have a hard time going back to a non-hybrid after having driven a hybrid though. My guess is electrics will be similar. I imagine the day in which we change a power cell in our vehicles will be much like changing the batteries in our tv remotes today.
It is really hard to ever conceive of a time in which I am willing to give up my 2006 4 door Duramax though! It was a huge upgrade from my 67 F100 that I was sad to let go but have moved on and don't miss it anymore.
My guess is that as us old folk die off our old ways will die off with us and the younger folk will be more open minded about vehicles than we are.
I bought my 2010 Lexus RX hybrid w 76K about 3 years ago and still love it. My biggest concern was the battery going bad so I did my research first and found that there are a variety of rebuilt batteries available for reasonable prices (They remove only the bad cells and replace them with new cells. The more cells that are on the border line that they replace is reflected in the cost of the rebuilt battery). No way would I ever pay for a new Lexus... new cars just don't make sense to me. I would have a hard time going back to a non-hybrid after having driven a hybrid though. My guess is electrics will be similar. I imagine the day in which we change a power cell in our vehicles will be much like changing the batteries in our tv remotes today.
It is really hard to ever conceive of a time in which I am willing to give up my 2006 4 door Duramax though! It was a huge upgrade from my 67 F100 that I was sad to let go but have moved on and don't miss it anymore.
My guess is that as us old folk die off our old ways will die off with us and the younger folk will be more open minded about vehicles than we are.
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