Garage too high - What solutions are there?

So the suggestion to simply leave out the garage is really the best thing I have read so far *head shaking*

Many brilliant things are simply, I just don’t understand the head shaking while you praise that.

For shopping the station wagon, for going for a walk the convertible etc.

Leonardo, the convertible is in the garage, that supports the preservation of value. The workhorse for everyday use can park at the streetlight.

Can she even write?

She doesn’t have to be able to. There are ghostwriters, that has to do with humane literary critic attitude, after all they also have dignity.

What is currently happening politically in the mobility sector is hair-raising and endangers the basis of our prosperity.

That too many cooks spoil the broth is certainly also amplifiable. But the environment actually still comes off comparatively well, education is being ridden to death by politics even more.

With what are all the electric cars charged?

With free-ranging electrons from floor husbandry – or not? Whoever wants to understand what is eco about the Chernobyl cars, go ahead.

The battery car is a dead end, bet.

Exactly. Declaring ten thousand cell phone batteries on a floor pan a messiah mocks itself best. Promoting cars with battery motors but without recuperation of braking energy (!) is madness without end. Electric instead of combustion engine is as sensible as the devil instead of Beelzebub. Promoted are “opponent” technologies, no ecumenism. The combination of different drive technologies would be sensible, but the lobbies want a war of systems.

In 30 years there will still be cars. VW will still build cars, but maybe their logo won’t be on the hood anymore.

That is actually only proof of functioning marketing psychology that we even still talk about car “manufacturers”. They are actually only assemblers of supplied special systems, which they decorate with bodies. Basically, the crucial parts come from Bosch, Magna & Co., i.e. more or less well-known component and system manufacturers; the “manufacturing” by brand emblem stickers only takes place in the consciousness of advertising recipients.

And if they do, I am most certain, they will no longer sell them to end customers. (High)technology is not sold, one sells usage rights. From owning a thing to paying for the use of a service.

The trend to “Mobility as a Service” is in full swing: Volvo strongly relies on the sales channel of leasing whole cars; an e-Smart and similar cars are even only available in the combination of renting the battery and buying merely the body “car”.

For that there has to be public transport.

Public transport worked fine as long as it was not privatized – so much for the topic “politics breaks exactly when it falls into the hands of politicians.”

Great concepts with a catch.
I'll take myself as an example now.

Carpooling is not an option. No one drives from my place to my work.
Public transportation for the same reason is not an option.
Carsharing, carpooling with whom? If I don’t have appointments, the car just stands there for hours. But 600 m to the next residential building. What happens, for example, if the daycare or school calls and the child has to be picked up?

You pick up a package in X, 5 km from your house in one direction, shopping is in Y, 15 km in the other direction. There you can also pick up packages but not for your residential area.
Kindergarten is in Z, shopping in Y.

And there are still many young people and families here. The trend is rising. It’s not only old people living in the village. It has advantages.

Private: Because I live in the village center, I can take care of many things on foot.

There are hitch benches and community buses that try, for example, to drive to the city on a fixed day. Getting a doctor’s appointment then is an art.

Great concepts with caveats. I'll take myself now

Exactly. You take yourself. Take me with you, then we are two, because even with my professional daily routine, the mentioned concepts cannot / can only be reconciled with significant restrictions and disadvantages. But: Still, I see no reason here to generally deny alternative mobility concepts their suitability.

If I have no appointments, the car stands idle for hours.

That is also one of the questions to be clarified in the course of a "new mobility". Do I necessarily have to move from location A to location B for the exercise of my gainful employment if there is no immediate necessity (in your case probably appointments)?

What is currently being done politically in the mobility sector is hair-raising

Bold statement. Well. For what VW did with the defeat devices, it is difficult to blame politics. For the fact that an entrepreneur with a ~12-year-old start-up with ~370K units in output (of mediocre quality) is leading the entire German automotive industry, they are responsible themselves.

It wasn’t just VW. Others had a note in the operating manual saying “Shutdown may occur for component protection.”
In another group, the state government kept a lid on it.
I don’t find the shutdown acceptable. Only those who care about the environment should not have bought most of the models anyway.
It’s not just black and white.

You can say what you want, there will always be at least two vehicles here, no matter what drive system.


I was out walking earlier. In one street, there are basically three variants.
To what extent these are feasible with your development plan and property, I can’t tell you.

that was not referring to that.

I was out on foot earlier. In one street, there are basically three variants.
To what extent they can be implemented with your B‘Plan and property, I cannot tell you.

Hi, thank you very much for your effort and for returning to the original topic