this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
146 points (94.0% liked)

Fuck Cars

15282 readers
318 users here now

A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!

Rules

1. Be CivilYou may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.

2. No hate speechDon't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.

3. Don't harass peopleDon't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.

4. Stay on topicThis community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.

5. No repostsDo not repost content that has already been posted in this community.

Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

Recommended communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah my aunt got one and it was astounding how cheap it was

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still more expensive than a paid off gas car. Probably cheaper (when fuel is factored in) than buying an equivalent used gas car.

A used car with incentives + cheap fuel for life and less maintenance. It's just that upfront cost that is a deterring factor, once these get cheaper, I'm hopeful we can transition everybody over