Is higher gasoline price, a motivation to do a trade in, to buy an electric car?

[strateguy632]

Until now, just over 1% of personal cars are battery, called EV. I heard many charging stations were added since January 2025, when more than 9% of new cars registered in 2024 here u. S. Were e. v.

So are the higher gasoline prices enough to push you to buy an electrical car? What stopped you until now? Will you do a "trade in" with your car to get a new or used young EV?

[Zack-Bann]

I would never trade the glory of internal combustion for the fraud that is battery power.

And I realize these are arbitrary things to be attached to.
Yet they somehow make perfect sense


And pragmatically: EVs need constant recharging, can’t go long distances, are tough to repair if they get damaged, and so on.

[exitseven]

No, until the technology for the electric car exceeds that of a gas powered car I will stick with what I have.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Horsegirly2001]

After our neighbours EV burned down their garage and smoke damaged their home id say no. Fire brigade could do nothing but watch as it burned. He actually got a chemical burn trying to put it out.

[strawberryapple]

No way. I can buy a lot of gas with the extra $20,000 for an electric.

[strawberryapple]

Thanks for the MHO.

[Snakeyes7]

sadly for many people yes. I don't use an EV so I don't know how charging it publicly works but if it is more cost effective in the long run, people will buy it.

[Jennz6]

@strateguy632

you’ll be sorry if you do

[strateguy632]

What stopped you from getting electric?

[Jennz6]

@strateguy632 I don’t drive but I was referring specifically to the Electric Car and the battery somehow can blow up or something like that and catch fire

[Redstang88]

It’s tempting to get one for a daily, but they’re just not quite up to what I’d need to really sell me

[Dargil]

They will come back down once we annihilate Iran.

[AgentG111]

Which is completely ridiculous the title fees are three times the amount of a regular vehicle.