Yeah, but this still holds a lot of water. More often than not people buy a new car to have a new car or even worse they buy one specificcally because they are misguidedly trying to lessen their carbon footprint.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

People aren't just buying new cars for fun in a recession. The point is people will need to buy a new car at some point. Either because they now need their own car or their old one isn't viable. At that point, choosing an electric car is a step in the right direction. That's why this post is stupid, it's acting like buying an electric car is just a frivolous purchase and not acknowledgeding that when someone needs to buy a car there is a choice to be made.

[–] toastus@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More often than not people buy a new car [...] trying to lessen their carbon footprint.

This seems very hard to believe.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try looking it up. That might help

[–] toastus@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just because I wanted to be sure I am not being mistaken for some reason I just googled a couple different search terms for motivations to buy a new car.

None of the results is even close to confirming your ludicrous quote from above.
So again I am baffled by how confidently wrong you keep on posting here.