• TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A $35,000 car (with what I could afford for a down payment, what I think I’d get for my trade-in, and at 8% interest), would be $655 a month. That’s budget busting for me.

    Even ignoring costs to install a charger, I spend about $80 in gas a month, so that wouldn’t be a huge savings. I’d still be spending an additional $575 a month which would be enough to put me in the red every month.

    The hybrids I was looking at cost $21K to $29K and even those would stress my budget out.