How did everyone in this last lot of posts forget that you save about 60% in fuel costs going EV? If you use $30 of petrol a week your payback is $1000 per year in fuel savings. Plus it's using ~90% of the fuel in the EV compared to ~35% in the ICE, 65% of the money you pay for petrol is literally up in noisy smoke for no forward motion.
I figure if someone can afford a 50k car every 3-5 years, they can afford a 60k car that will save them a lot of petrol, and servicing. I'm putting a ~$2000 clutch in my car at 99000 kays, there's something that would never happen in an EV no matter how many kays. I've had the car for 5 years, it's 7 years old, so for the time I've owned it I would have saved 5k on petrol, 2k for the clutch, probably 1k of sundry servicing stuff EV's don't need, which is pretty close to the average difference.
But is the actual elephant in the room changing cars every 3-5 years on novated leases with tax breaks? A policy that favours wealthy people and props up the car industry? I did the sums, it was so marginal whether I would save money or spend more leasing that I got a car loan, smashed it out early, and have paid a fair bit less than a lease would have been over the 5 years. However if I was buying a $70k car opposed to a $27k car the benefits start to go the other way, novated leasing is for rich people.
The ICE car makers are also pulling everyone's chains making them so much more expensive than their ICE models, like I've said before, equivalent size, quality and features of a Tesla in any other brand ICE car cost as much or more than the Tesla.
Wont be buying a car for a very long time! The Alfa is still only on 35K kms after 4 years and that includes a lot of interstate runs for the move thats not BAU.
