Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

City dwellers and suburban residents know nothing about the countryside. A 130 km daily commute is not uncommon here. Picking up our son from the airport, 250 km. Once to Ikea, 140 km. Once visiting relatives, 90 km. An electric Corsa, my sister-in-law has it, real range in winter with some heating and a few kilometers of highway is 200 km. Then it’s over. Not enough for the airport and back. That is all not practical at all. And the cost after the subsidy was 28,000 for the car. 28k for a Corsa! For them, it’s their eco second car toy, the husband still drives an A6 diesel, at least with that you can go on a trip. Our next car, that’s certain, will not be an electric car, max a plug-in hybrid. That is okay for practical use if you want to manage with just one car.

First of all, you can count those with their own trees on one hand, and secondly, wood for the stove and fireplace can be delivered at a reasonable price.

Not a forest, but simply trees, almost every property has that here. Even if they are just fruit trees. Plus large shrubs and hedges. They need to be pruned. Of course you can have wood delivered, but then only from a company. Privately, you get it for half to a third of the price.

Silke, let it be. The cargo bike willies don't know anything. They don't even have rubber boots, overalls, and a saw. They can only google and call a company.

your prejudices are refreshingly honest, but I can’t take that seriously anymore ;)

The area seems to be really sparsely populated. Given your driving profile and as the only car, I wouldn’t buy an electric one either.

But that’s no problem. Millions of brand new diesels and petrol cars are still out there that should be driven for at least another 20 years. Then we’ll see ;)

By the way, you can retrofit a trailer hitch. I even did that on my petrol car, surprisingly it didn’t have one.

Yes, here in SH and next door in MVP, the areas are mostly sparsely populated. The distances are considerable. That someone has to drive 10 km to the supermarket is normal. It also happens in Bavaria, northeastern Hesse, Brandenburg, or East Frisia. Prejudices and also anger, yes. For what feels like ten years, city dwellers from well-off academic circles have been explaining ever more insistently how we have to live, talk, and think without having any clue about our lives. At work, you had colleagues. Now you have employees, so that the diverse others are not discriminated against. The Gypsy schnitzel was no longer allowed, and now schnitzel itself is no longer allowed. When we visit our child in Vienna, we are told not to fly; you should travel by train, which would take 13 hours from here if everything goes well, which is also not so certain. Car? Preferably a cargo bike, if necessary, an electric car, never diesel, which is banned from the city. Agriculture is a crime against humans and animals, fishing likewise. Peta and Seashepherd know everything better. You want a home of your own, which was initially considered bourgeois, then became un-eco-friendly, and in the end, you are to blame for global warming with your home, which, objectively viewed, is caused at most 4% by Germany, and probably only 0.4% by the rural population. But that does not matter. And eventually, you find all of that f…ing annoying. So much hubris, hypocrisy, righteousness, and superiority complex.

Silke, let it be. The cargo bike willies don’t know anything. They don’t even have rubber boots, overalls, and a saw. They can only google and call a company.

Thanks for the fame. Contrary to the weak accusations, I myself live very rurally, one could describe it as structurally weak. No new buildings either. Still, no one commutes over 70 km here, wood is made by 1 in 10 houses on the street themselves. If you really want a Smart, then just buy the combustion engine version, but you can’t use that as criticism of electric cars, rather as criticism of the Smart. And whoever ticks all the boxes when ordering pays more for the combustion engine as well as the electric car. Nevertheless, there is the usable E-Corsa for 20. Here, a lot is simply mixed up so that it fits the opinion (and prejudices). And yes, for the 10% of permanent airport commuters and constant trailer users who make their wood, an electric car is absolutely nothing. For the other 90%, it is. And it makes sense, since energy from electricity is used much more efficiently in an electric car than with e-fuels. It’s like with heat pumps vs hydrogen for heating.