Don't see as many rust buckets as we used to in NJ. They've been using brine on the roads for a while now. Plus, the car washes have the option of bottom cleaning of the cars. Now, Pennsylvania's another story.
The fact most manufacturers dip their cars before painting now helps a ton....once corrosion protection was limited to certain areas or sprayed on...but manufacturers learned through 10 year rust through warranty claims they simply had to do better and change they did....(Look how many VW fixed as an example)
Unfortunately with a 5% chance of an accident per year give or take attrition will eventually win...
This is what I, and others, like about older cars. No screen, no beeping, no nannies. And I appreciate my crank windows.That and people suddenly realize you have to use mirrors to backup, maybe crank a window up or even row your own gears,
Suddenly you get your kids friends in a circle looking at you car talking about how crazy people must have been in the 80's and 90's.
No Bluetooth, Lane assist, or auto braking... depending on the year maybe no ABS,
A friend of mine had to teach his daughter how to open the windows in his S-10 P/U 'cause she couldn't find the button.
Ok, perhaps I need to take a step back and look at the bigger picture (on the average):
You would be forced to have to buy a second ICE vehicle for road trips unless you do that very infrequently.
And at this point... having the most $$$ car for local use isn't what people want...
If you were to estimate what you see in your area, omitting commercial, what would you say is the ratio of ICE to EV? I had my yearly physical this morning and I parked at the end corner of the lot. Roughly 120 cars and I noticed one hybrid. Several newer Chevy and Ford trucks, all with exhaust pipes. I know there are EV's around, but I'll stick with a no more than 3% that I am seeing. That's in Grand Rapids, by me, pretty much nonexistent outside of Amazon trucks.
I think the percentage of EVs on the road compared to ICE vehicles are in the very low single digits, perhaps less than 1%. Winter isn't kind to EVs, and charging stations have been very slow to appear around where I live. Honestly the only one I can think of is at a local Kia dealer. There's a Tesla "store" near IDParts, but I can't think of a Tesla charging station that I've seen near me.
That sounds typical of here, I would suspect your humidity is no less than ours either, that can't be a plus.
Funny you mention that. These EV guys who advertised a car show on Facebook, I follow a page that posts car shows in Michigan, got blasted by people. The typical internet style of voicing a difference of opinion. Anyway, it reminded me of some incidents that happened at the General Motors plant in GR in the late "70's on 2nd/3rd shift. People who drove Japanese cars to work had them stacked up by a Hilo and burned. I don't know whatever become of it.
There's always a dark side to human nature. Around that time a Chinese American guy got beat to death in Detroit by a couple drunk union auto workers because they thought he looked Japanese.
If we still had to commute, we would have considered an EV, but since we've retired the main emphasis on a second new car is the ability to walk out the door and take which ever vehicle we want to head off to wherever we aim it.
Friend of mine tried solar, but he ended up pretty disappointed. He didn't have optimal conditions though. Lack of space for adequate panels for cold weather charging. He ended up installing a natural gas unit to operate the furnace and freezers/fridge in case of power failure when he's gone in the winter. Installed the transfer switch between the main and remote panel in the garage. No extra hands in the pockets that way.
That's the same thing that makes an EV impractical for us. We're impulsive with our travels, often unscheduled, we generally pick a direction rather than a destination. Even our scheduled trips with a destination have no planned route.
umm, nope, Motability have not "switched" to EVs. You can certainly choose one, but the co-pay (users can put money towards a fancier car) may rule out many options for lots of people.
