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I agree with you completely. That being said, there is a lot of room between 6000 dollars and 20000-ish for Smart Fortwo* (EU numbers) which I guess could be a

• headmelted 6y ago
  True. I will say though that my Leaf was the local equivalent of about $8k US and is actually worth more now than when I bought it so would thoroughly recommend the used route with EVs for anyone considering it. (Also 5* Euro NCAP for the kiddies)
  • Kosirich 6y ago
    Wow, 8k is nothing! Well, a used Leaf with around 50-60000 kilometers, 2015., is 15 000 dollars+ in Denmark. Interesting thing is, if you didn't know, Denmark has 70%-180% taxes on cars. Reality is that the base car prices are lower(ed) so the end price is not as high as people expect. Electric cars were exempt from taxes until Tesla came and messed things up (people bought model S instead of nice beemers, audies as they got more car for buck...Danish government didn't like that). Now the tax is 20% with planned increase, as Danish welfare system, unlike Norway's (similar taxation policy), can't afford losing future tax revenue (quoting Danish government). So logic dictates, rate of electric car price decrease has to be same or higher (abs) as tax increase in order to make average Jørgen decide to go electric.