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Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson blamed for slow electric car sales (news.sky.com)
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

If most people replace their cars every three years they're not getting to 80,000 km before they buy a new one.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Do they though?

    And it's not as if these cars were sent to the scraper, they're sold on the used market and replace gas cars.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    According to Mr. Bean's original article, that's the average length of car ownership in Britain due to the prevalence of three year leases.

    And it doesn't matter if they're going on the used market because there's still another new car getting built that doesn't have to be.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, the policy causes more cars to be sold, which is also an important thing to take into account.

    But you initially said "If most people replace their cars every three years they’re not getting to 80,000 km before they buy a new one.", and that is plain wrong, the car is not scrapped after those 3 years, so when it changes owner for the first time is irrelevant. And that 80k km is worst case scenario, that assuming all electricity is generated in the least environmental way possible, in practice it's often <40k km that there is already a break even because not all electricity is generated by coal.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Except that is ignoring the filtering effect of the used market. As a car ages and changes hands, it is likely to replace an older, less efficient car. How else could we replace the oldest cars that are going out of service due to being at the end of their life?

    It’s not like the people that are buying old used cars are suddenly going to afford an expensive new car. Instead, they need an affordable used car.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Are we sure newer cars are more efficient ? With dieselgate and recent articles about how Co2 emissions are better in lab but same on real conditions, we are allowed to have fat doubts.

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