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I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

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Post by crote »

motorest wrote: post #473
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I paid over $50 USD for parking a bit over two hours in Cambridge Massachusetts when visiting MIT. Parking in the Boston area is atrocious.

> I paid over $50 USD for parking a bit over two hours in Cambridge Massachusetts when visiting MIT. Parking in the Boston area is atrocious. The two are related. The whole point of charging for parking is to leverage scarcity to convince people to not make the problem worse and just find alternatives to driving to the doorstop that work well for them.

Don't forget the opportunity cost. Urban land is extremely valuable, so if you're using it for car parking instead of shop, restaurants, homes, or offices you're missing out on a lot of potential income.

This goes doubly so for all the additional roads you need to get the cars to their parking spots.

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Post by irjustin »

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Funny! Here in Cyprus in spite of totally car-centric culture, parking is free almost everywhere or at the very worst, 4 EUR per DAY in a few spots, but even there it's usually possible to find a spot for free. Sometimes i wonder how our nation works. Low taxes, effectively no poverty among locals (and a foreigner can only be poor if they are an illegal immigrant, otherwise they lose their rights of residence and kic…

It is called the tax haven premium. Just like Luxemburg or caymen island also works well as nations. I don't think it is something to be proud of though, as the riches are not earned.

Are you proud of yours? I'm US and I'm not proud of how our taxes are earned and I'm definitely not proud how they're spent.

Re: I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf

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Post by tossandthrow »

dash2 wrote: post #499
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It is called the tax haven premium. Just like Luxemburg or caymen island also works well as nations. I don't think it is something to be proud of though, as the riches are not earned.

If you can offer companies a lower tax than other jurisdictions with the same level of service, why isn't it earned?

Because paying lower taxes is not a productive activity. It is quite plain a simple. It is an extractive activity.

In particular, the taxes being paid in these jurisdictions are not earned in them - which makes it even worse.

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Post by globular-toast »

geerlingguy wrote: post #463
pryelluw wrote: post #239

@Jeff: Are you worried or thought about resale value? Do you plan to keep it for long?

Like my other cars, I plan on driving it into the ground :) And the range is overkill for me, really. I could live with 100 miles or so and not worry, so even if the battery wears down to 50% SoH (right now it's 93% after 36k miles), I'll still be happy.

What's your strategy for scrapping a car? I find people grossly underestimate the cost of car ownership mostly due to cost of maintenance and repairs at the end of life. It's so easy to keep bleeding parts and labour for longer than is economical.

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Post by saagarjha »

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Also CarPlay, which was on my shortlist of features I actually cared for in any newer car. Silly of Tesla to not support it out of the box (IMO).

CarPlay is trash tho. Had a rental again last weekend. It’s core feature - google maps wrapper - is just barely useable. Sure it does other things, but it’s not worth the hassle.

CarPlay is much better than the alternatives.

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Post by saagarjha »

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In NZ you can get a Leaf for $1-2k, about 50km range remaining.

50k is equivalent to driving around with a low fuel warning constantly on your dash

Not if your commute is a few miles.

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Post by maccard »

octo888 wrote: post #380
rsolva wrote: post #312

Small, cheap electric cars are the best! Fun to drive, easy to maintain. I own an VW eUP 2015 model which costed me €4000 used. I do not know if they where for sale outside of Norway (I only see them here!), but it is the perfect car for 95% of our mobility needs. I drive it to work every day (where I can charge it for free). I drive it to Oslo and can park/charge almost anywhere around town for really cheap, about €…

> is usually ~€16/h Holy HELL that is crazy. I thought £5/hr in London was crazy.

Where are you parking for £5/hr in London? It’s more than that in Edinburgh these days

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Post by arresin »

tossandthrow wrote: post #513
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If you can offer companies a lower tax than other jurisdictions with the same level of service, why isn't it earned?

Because paying lower taxes is not a productive activity. It is quite plain a simple. It is an extractive activity. In particular, the taxes being paid in these jurisdictions are not earned in them - which makes it even worse.

Wait paying lower taxes is extractive?

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Post by arresin »

rsolva wrote: post #481
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When you use a charging station, you pay for the power you consume, but not for "parking". This usually means you can't stay for a particularly long time.

Correct, but the time you can stay is surprisingly generous in Oslo, between 3 and 24 hours, depending on location. I used to dread driving to Oslo, but after I discovered that the municipality had repurposed an old bunker to fit hundreads of chargers/parking spost dead in the middle of town, I visit with gleeful joy :P Here is a map of all charging points provided by the municipality around Oslo: https://experience.…

I wish we had the brains to do this in Aussie cities

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Post by herbst »

masklinn wrote: post #475
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I don't drive a RV, I just charge my campers batteries sometimes. I have 3 different connector cables from the common connectors I found in Switzerland, France and Italy only.

Are you talking about shore power? Because that has nothing to do with EV charging.

No.
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