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> It's not about "refusing to average an entire life style down to the median day". It's acquiscing to the median day, and then using the edge cases as if they

> It's not about "refusing to average an entire life style down to the median day". It's acquiscing to the median day, and then using the edge cases as if they mean you haven't. Thank you for this, this seems like the most rational take. I went through the more extreme version of this debate myself, I don’t own a car anymore and despite what everybody told me, I haven’t lost any flexibility at all. Between financing the vehicle, gasoline, insurance, vehicle tax and maintenance I save about 4800€/yr. I can do about 360 days of the year without a car. I can rent a car best fitted for the occasion and still save tons of money. I used a van for when I got stuff from ikea, I had a sedan for a road trip and a compact EV for when we had a city trip. With this being a no brainer I’d argue I gained flexibility and improved my not so median days. The same thing can be said about just switching to a BEV. The BEV will, for the vast majority of people, be an improvement for their median day. You can charge at home, you have less maintenance hassle and the range will be perfectly fine for your median day. At the same time it won’t hinder your above median days not significantly. You can plan out your trips with a little more breaks and you’ll be fine, at the same time, with the money you saved on ToC you can also just rent out a nice ICE for the extra ordinary occasions.

matsemann 3y ago
Yeah, I've managed 8+ years in my city without owning a car, and still did lots of things with a car. Just had to change my mindset about costs. Like, paying €50 to rent from a carshare outside the apartment to go skiing for 2-3 hours felt really expensive in the beginning. But then I realized, that with the money saved from not owning a car, I could actually probably do this twice a week during winter season and still come out far ahead. It's just that when you buy a car, you don't see the price tag on each trip.

matsemann 3y ago

Yeah, I've managed 8+ years in my city without owning a car, and still did lots of things with a car. Just had to change my mindset about costs. Like, paying €50 to rent from a carshare outside the apartment to go skiing for 2-3 hours felt really expensive in the beginning. But then I realized, that with the money saved from not owning a car, I could actually probably do this twice a week during winter season and still come out far ahead. It's just that when you buy a car, you don't see the price tag on each trip.