As for your father, you can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink, if he would rather waste money on gas then that's his problem to deal with. He could at least get a PHEV and drive the 30 minutes on battery power alone but still have a gas engine as a backup to reassure him.

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We have enough land and material to build a shack for an EV that we wouldn't care about burning down. His major concern is the repairability: allegedly the service station can quarantine the car if the battery is a little too warm at cost to the owner and potentially never return it. And a lot of them "will just straight-up deny service" in fear of a HVDC electric shock, which is allegedly not deadly but forces the technician to undergo 5 days off work for electrolysis blood testing.

A friendly German family bought a hybrid that isn't even plug-in... in 2023. It still has incandescent lamps. These people REALLY put very little thought into the real cost of keeping a gas engine running for 15 years, especially with projected gas prices in Germany (already 80% higher than here). At least I don't feel guilty because I had no say in that.

Yes, my father finds the mechanic he goes to friendly but he needs to realize the EV alternative is not finding another but needing no mechanic for the most part.

I don't have much money but I can cause some leverage by only allowing loans on my name on a pure EV, no matter the size. Even the mechanic said rental for the road trips is easier than we think, and when my parents travel alone even German trains are cheaper than fuel. The mechanic's views are certainly outdated, he also said EV owners keep running over cats at night because the cars are too quiet but they have mandatory speakers now.