I’m talking about the poorest of car-owners obviously, as well as people who lease for 3-years periods. Buying/leasing electric is more expensive than a similar vehicle with a petrol engine, so there is no way this will not affect lower-income people the most.
Bring the cost of electric vehicles down and give people a grace-period longer than your normal leasing period of 3 years and petrol bans begin to make sense.
Not sure what you mean with “Wastes of space cost a lot of money”, but I suspect that you think this will mean fewer cars in the city? It will mean fewer petrol cars of course, but they will be replaced by electric cars eventually anyway and the space waste will remain unchanged.
Again, this is not the “Fuck cars” moment most people in the thread seem to think.
You assume that people need a car, that is not true, at least for Stockholm(and most of european cities). Many people, even rich ones, dont have a car or dont use the car in the city. The use public transportation or rent a car for how long they need with an app.
Electric cars absolutely make the city more livable. The reduction in noise alone is huge.
Plugin electric vehicles, so plugin hybrids and full evs are at over 50% market share in Sweden. It is not like most Swedes can not afford them.
So the ban will have very little effect, except punishing the poorest.
The poorest usually don’t have a car in the first place. These wastes of space cost a lot of money.
I’m talking about the poorest of car-owners obviously, as well as people who lease for 3-years periods. Buying/leasing electric is more expensive than a similar vehicle with a petrol engine, so there is no way this will not affect lower-income people the most.
Bring the cost of electric vehicles down and give people a grace-period longer than your normal leasing period of 3 years and petrol bans begin to make sense.
Not sure what you mean with “Wastes of space cost a lot of money”, but I suspect that you think this will mean fewer cars in the city? It will mean fewer petrol cars of course, but they will be replaced by electric cars eventually anyway and the space waste will remain unchanged.
Again, this is not the “Fuck cars” moment most people in the thread seem to think.
You assume that people need a car, that is not true, at least for Stockholm(and most of european cities). Many people, even rich ones, dont have a car or dont use the car in the city. The use public transportation or rent a car for how long they need with an app.
Electric cars absolutely make the city more livable. The reduction in noise alone is huge.