[Loudergood]

Like me, you're not buying new cars on that budget anyway. 6 years ago when my ICE car became unreliable I bought a used Chevy Bolt for less than $20k. They're closer to $10k now. Plenty of range.

People aren't being asked to dump their current reliable vehicles.

What we want is for people to think about EVs when it's time to replace them.

[vladvasiliu]

> People aren't being asked to dump their current reliable vehicles

Depends on where the people live. In France, that's just about what they're asked. If their car is "too old" (reliability doesn't matter, only age), they may no longer drive in Paris and some other major cities on weekdays from 6 AM to 8 PM or something like that.

https://www.france.fr/en/article/crit-air-anti-pollution-veh...

[joe_mamba]

I have an ICE car and I agree with restrictions like that. You don't need to be Jeff Bezos to own a car that's at least Euro 5 and doesn't heavily pollute the air. If you own some 20+ year old beater that smokes like a chimney, get fined, we don't have to tolerate your health hazard mobile.