what are the advantages and disadvantages of driving a car?

what are the advantages and disadvantages of driving a car?

Is it worth having a car today?

Better wait for electric cars?

Disadvantages: It costs money

Advantages: I can get places.

My car cost £200, insurance £350, tax £150, and about £10-15 fuel a week. So less than £1400 a year. That can't be achieved with an electric car.

It really can. Your car is just...old is all. It also seems like you're doing 100 miles/week. That can definitely be achieved with an electric car

For £1400 a year?

The cheapest electric car is around £600. You're using a false comparison any way. Your £200 car is very old. Otherwise... yes. An electric car costs around 1/3 to run than an ICE car, and has lower maintenance costs due to a lack of moving parts

I'm using an exact comparison of what it costs me to run a car, it's not false or hypothetical, it's the real world.

I'm not saying my scenario covers everyone, but it's the cheapest it's possible to run a car. And you can't run an electric car that cheaply.

Yes... You can. Electricity is about three times cheaper than fossil fuels

Show me an electric car that will give me a total running cost of £1400 a year and I'll go and buy it today.

Total running cost so car, insurance, tax, maintenance and fuel.

You're talking about the running costs and not the cost of the car itself. The car always keeps eos value. My car is cheaper to run than yours. Sure, if cost a lot more but it's cheaper to run than yours. Most ICE cars are cheaper to run than your car too.

A better comparison is to compare a modern ICE car to an electric.

Disadvantages: It costs money

Advantages: I can get places.

My car cost £200, insurance £350, tax £150, and about £10-15 fuel a week. So less than £1400 a year. That can't be achieved with an electric car.

You haven't factored in maintenance and repair costs which are not only going to be inevitable with a car that cost you 200 quid, but also likely aren't going to be cheap.

There is no maintenance cost because if it doesn't pass its MOT I buy another £200 car.

Bangornomics isn't for everyone, but for the last 10 years, my purchase costs have averaged £250 per year once I also factor in the money I've gotten back scrapping the cars after I'm done.

No, I'm talking about my total cost of ownership to run a car. Buying it, insuring it, taxing it and fueling it.

I understand an electric car is cheaper to fuel per mile, but no total cost of ownership is cheaper than what I have for my annual mileage. So I don't need a better comparison, I'm really running a car for less than £1400 a year. There isn't an electric car option that cheap.

Well, if you're going full banger, then yeah, doesn't get much cheaper than that! Not something most people do though because they need reliability. My lease contract costs me just over 2k a year with everything included (tax, insurance, repairs & servicing and premium breakdown cover), probably around 2.5k if petrol costs are added to that. So that's 1k extra, but I'm driving around in a brand new Fiesta Titanium that I won't have to fork out another penny for should anything go wrong, though it's hardly likely to be faulty given its age. Worth that much per year just for the peace of mind tbh, I have enough going on in my life to not want to be stressing over my car as well. Plus, as I said, barring going bangernomic, a lot of people buy cheap cars thinking they're getting a good deal and then spend hundreds or even thousands per year on repairs, making it a false economy. If you don't mind all the f***ing about then you've got the right idea really, my dad had the same philosophy

That's only because electric cars aren't... old enough. You're not comparing like for like. Besides, maintenance costs are a lot lower for electric cars. Maybe not for you if you'd scrap your car if it needed fixing.