The wife of a friend, (who knows stuff) told me last week that "Of course you will have to buy an electric car soon". I don't know what world lens she looks through, but she was visibly shocked when I told her that there was no way I would ever buy an electric car. I would actually rather manage without. We have great railway connections here.
In a different conversation with her partner. aged 72, he tells me that I will have to change my cars eventually. I asked him how long he expects to be driving, and his answer was basically that he expects to carry on as now, into the distant future. When I pointed out, that at our age, our life can switch in a moment without warning, and that there can be no guarantees that he will be driving in 7 years, at 80, he was shocked and thinks I'm a doom-ster. The truth is, that most of people we know at our age, have medical conditions of various sorts, and some arrived unannounced, and rocked their lives in days. He's not that fit either but subscribes to an aspirin a day over the last 20 years to keep him alive. At a recent consultation, his doctor referred to that as the miracle drug.
Anyway, my pragmatic reality midset, tells me that our current Polo and Golf will easliy go another 7 years, unless some catastrophe befalls aither, which is why I have no plans at all to change cars Electric or otherwise..
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