What car should I buy?

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I've never owned a car before in my life. I might need to one soon. Budget is $40k. Here are the things I'm considering:

I want to go all-electric
Not Tesla because fuck Elon.
Requires as little maintenance as possible.
Has the lowest environmental impact (both in terms of construction of the vehicle and in terms of energy use) as possible

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe a chevy bolt, mini's ev models, or a nissan leaf.

If you're fine with plug in hybrids, you could also look at prius prime. It has a 44 mile ev only range and switches to hybrid when the battery runs out.

[–] pontata 0 points 1 year ago

Don't take this as a fact but I think buying a not so old but not recent diesel might be the best choice. I have an old VW Golf 6 from 2010. All it requires is yearly service and thats it. It does around 5l/100km depending on where you're driving and how.

Somebody needs to do the math but I think buying a used one makes the least amount of environmental impact vs a new one even if you take into account the worse efficency of older cars.

As for gas vs diesel vs electric, you gotta do the math yourself, I'm to lazy :)