Home financing ever possible? Probably not!

First of all, self-responsible planning applies: if an electric car is problematic for someone, they should not buy one yet.

Soon it will no longer be a free choice, you won’t be allowed to register a combustion engine anymore. I’ll just ignore the red herring about e-fuels. And that is what bothers me about it. If it were a free choice, I wouldn’t care. For a second car, the electric vehicle is actually quite suitable, apart from the price. But only to a limited extent for the first car.

Secondly, “charging in ski resorts” is a marginal problem from the perspective of the majority of people. I wrote against those who see it as a general problem. Day trips to ski resorts are no argument against it. Also, only a few have to regularly pull a trailer. (Cann’t the two day ski tours per year basically be done with a rental car?)

Ski resorts may be a marginal problem, but overall we have a problem with the difference between average and distribution. A car may drive on average 40 km per day, but in practice there are many days when it drives significantly more. That is why manufacturers also install large and heavy batteries. Additional range in an electric car is simply expensive and consumes resources. A tank that holds 20 liters more diesel, on the other hand, is neither heavy nor particularly elaborate. And someone will have to explain to me what everyone finds so great about rental cars. You have to pick it up separately, return home again to load it, if you need it more often it’s expensive, and it won’t solve the actual problem in the long term, because rental cars are also affected by the combustion engine ban.

We have been driving the ZoE in city traffic for 3 years. That works great – but recently I had a serious car accident with the diesel. My husband's trips to the hospital, then picking up our son, going back to the hospital, and then home were barely manageable and only because he happened to have fully charged the evening before. Normally, charging once a week is enough for the 30 km per day. What really bothers me is that you simply aren’t that flexible in emergencies, unforeseen changes of plans, or anything that involves spontaneity, and I don’t feel comfortable when my husband drives (now a petrol car) to work and I only have the ZoE in the yard. I get an uneasy feeling... Therefore, with the current state of things, I would never want or be able to rely solely on electric. A hybrid, on the other hand, would be ideal for me since I commute about 60 km per day. Then plug in at home (rental house with a cable from the basement window) and that’s that – but without restrictions if necessary. Or someday having the option to fully charge anywhere within 10 minutes – but we don’t even have such a cable, and those things cost extra anyway... The ZoE is only leased and won’t be replaced; my husband wanted to try it out. Soon there will be a company car, a pure diesel – for his often over 600 km business trips, he would constantly exceed his working hours if he had to stop one or two times for an hour to charge the car on the way.

Soon it will no longer be a free choice, you won’t be allowed to register any more combustion engines. I’ll just ignore the smokescreen with the e-fuels. And that’s what bothers me about it. If it were a free choice, I wouldn’t care. For a second car, an electric vehicle is actually quite suitable, apart from the price. But for the first car, only to a limited extent..

But the combustion engine ban is not an arbitrary decision. Unfortunately, it is coming rather quickly now, but the problem it aims to address has been known since the times when Mrs. Merkel was still the Environment Minister. That we are damaging our environment and climate sustainably by pumping massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere is old news; it was just ignored for a long time. Accordingly, measures are now necessary that require most people to rethink somewhere. Losses in convenience and charging stops are still comparatively mild. I believe the fact that no one in Germany questions individual transport as such is already a great privilege. And it is based on the fact that many poorer countries do not even use their share. We simply do not have enough raw materials for every person on Earth to have their own car available at all times.

If it were a free choice, I wouldn't care.

We are of the same opinion. Nevertheless, I am quite sure that by then we will see range increases and cost reductions in electric vehicles. Regarding the charging network, I am uncertain. How things will look with the use cases will have to be seen. And if things get too turbulent among the people, a regulation will also be quickly suspended sometimes; that's how politics usually works.

That we are sustainably damaging our environment and our climate by blasting massive amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere is an old hat; it was just ignored for a long time.
Accordingly, measures are now necessary that require most people to rethink at some point.

I have to interrupt here. First of all, we are not damaging the climate; we are warming it quickly, which overwhelms the adaptability of ecosystems and humans. "Climate" is a state definition; you cannot damage it.
And regarding the necessary measures: what is needed to counteract the warming is that oil, coal, and gas stay in the ground. What is extracted is also burned.

No producer produces less if cars are driven electrically in Europe. They just sell it more cheaply.
So it is more about showing that it can also be done differently, making a good impression with a different energy concept. Marketing, so that the better becomes the enemy of the good, if you will.

We are doing really great *ironyoff*

Ok. So how often do you have to recharge on the go and by how much does it increase your costs. So far I read that with moderate driving you manage 160km + reserve. How often per year is that not enough, how often is it sufficient?

Not at all. With the toy no journey with a reasonably decent range is completed. I am glad to have our diesel and currently see no adequate replacement. Btw: calling 120 km/h moderate driving seems a bit exaggerated to me, because you mostly aren’t allowed to drive faster in the Ruhr area :-)