Taxes, fuel, repairs, replacement of the car and very often even insurance is cheaper. That's MORE than enough, if you calculate honestly.
In my experience, that's not true. Our Twingo is now 100 months old, cost 8300,- and is now worth about 4000, which would give a leasing rate of around 40 per month, the electric car would always be over 200.
We only drive about 8000 km per year, since she works locally and I don’t work anymore at all and do most things by bike. It was different before, of course, then we had two cars. Today, if we need more than the Twingo because of a trip, we go to the ADAC rental car portal.
But that's another matter and cannot be applied to working people or commuters, who by the way commute because of homeland, because of affordable houses up here, because of a partner who works here, etc., etc. Without a flat rate, the housing situation in cities worsened even more.
But… why should one actually get rid of the Twingo, Fiesta, etc. and lease the ID3? Why? Climate protection! But the Twingo, Fiesta, etc. would still be driven, just no longer here. Elsewhere, however, and for a long time yet. So what does the electric car bring? It was not produced climate-neutrally and comes on top, mostly so far as a second car. It would really make a difference to give up one's car completely, at the moment completely unrealistic in the countryside, possibly conceivable in Hamburg. Maybe Apple will soon be at the point where you can order a Siri car on demand via an app for an annual flat rate, autonomous, Siri, drive me to Aldi, then to the harbor and to the hairdresser. If that works, it would be doable for us, my wife and me.
The bus is no alternative for me, I don’t like having to travel with a mask on graffiti-covered seats in the company of rowdy youths.