Can park them at the edge of the city and take a train or bus.
If they live in the city, they can just take a train or bus and don’t need to own a car if they can’t afford to.
There’s still lots of these cars for sale in Germany. The fact that they haven’t all been exported to countries without such restrictions already, means they’ve been used in the meantime, since the restrictions have been in place a long time and a car that sits for too long is going to have a LOT of issues.
You can rent a car or a van with minute and kilometer pricing from several different apps these days if no train or bus takes you where you need to go, or you need to move something that you can’t reasonably carry. If you need to get to the city first - well you can still drive your old car to the city limit. Or have an ebike to take to the nearest train station.
Plus any kinda 2035 ban, you have 10 years to plan for. There’s going to be electric cars that are not even built yet that will be pretty cheap by 2035.
It works fine IF polluting vehicles are banned from cities only. If they become illegal altogether, then all the rural folks will be fucked unless they can afford a newer car.
@boonhet@0x0 they’ve got ten years from now in which they just need to remember not to buy a non-compliant one. The number of people still driving the same car they have now in ten years is small, surely.
Can park them at the edge of the city and take a train or bus.
If they live in the city, they can just take a train or bus and don’t need to own a car if they can’t afford to.
There’s still lots of these cars for sale in Germany. The fact that they haven’t all been exported to countries without such restrictions already, means they’ve been used in the meantime, since the restrictions have been in place a long time and a car that sits for too long is going to have a LOT of issues.
If they don’t need a car that may make sense.
You can rent a car or a van with minute and kilometer pricing from several different apps these days if no train or bus takes you where you need to go, or you need to move something that you can’t reasonably carry. If you need to get to the city first - well you can still drive your old car to the city limit. Or have an ebike to take to the nearest train station.
Plus any kinda 2035 ban, you have 10 years to plan for. There’s going to be electric cars that are not even built yet that will be pretty cheap by 2035.
It works fine IF polluting vehicles are banned from cities only. If they become illegal altogether, then all the rural folks will be fucked unless they can afford a newer car.
@boonhet @0x0 they’ve got ten years from now in which they just need to remember not to buy a non-compliant one. The number of people still driving the same car they have now in ten years is small, surely.