Comment by LunaSea
5 hours ago
Beyond the points you made about petrol cars, the price is also a big factor.
In the EU, car companies only sell large (and very expensive) SUVs.
If you want to have a fully electric car on top of that, the bill will be far too high for most people.
This is also why the EU is seeing a switch where people can't buy their cars anymore and have to lease them or hope their employer will do it for them as part of a company car package.
> In the EU, car companies only sell large (and very expensive) SUVs.
News to me. Did you mean in the US? Or did you mean the most famous German brands like BMW and Audi?
For the EU as a whole, there's e.g. Dacia which is Romanian and therefore EU: https://shop.dacia.de/offer/257/235286/0/0 this is clearly neither an SUV, nor particularly expensive — even 18 years ago I was seeing things for about this price new, and there's been a lot of inflation since then.