It's a fascinating, multi-faceted subject. You and your family are obviously way more willing than average to commute by bike or transit, which is awesome. Not everyone can or will make some of those decisions or sacrifices. It also gets more complicated if you add more kids. My wife and I easily got along with one vehicle when we lived in north van (transit, bikes to commute or for errands, easy to walk to do many things, car share) but many of those things are not options here in Sechelt. We still only use one car most of the time and the truck gets driven only 1-2 times per week, and if I had ready access to a car share system for a pickup, I'd try that for sure.
On the EV side, the incentives that are offered to new EV owners actually lead to a tax surplus based on new car sales, so it's not a simple formula. And early adopters are helping sort out the infrastructure that will be needed in future to support charging - it's not always been smooth sailing but we've enjoyed being part of that.
I think we can all agree that most Stratas are nightmares, though. I was really glad to leave that behind.
July 12, 2022, 4:41 p.m. - Pete Roggeman
It's a fascinating, multi-faceted subject. You and your family are obviously way more willing than average to commute by bike or transit, which is awesome. Not everyone can or will make some of those decisions or sacrifices. It also gets more complicated if you add more kids. My wife and I easily got along with one vehicle when we lived in north van (transit, bikes to commute or for errands, easy to walk to do many things, car share) but many of those things are not options here in Sechelt. We still only use one car most of the time and the truck gets driven only 1-2 times per week, and if I had ready access to a car share system for a pickup, I'd try that for sure. On the EV side, the incentives that are offered to new EV owners actually lead to a tax surplus based on new car sales, so it's not a simple formula. And early adopters are helping sort out the infrastructure that will be needed in future to support charging - it's not always been smooth sailing but we've enjoyed being part of that. I think we can all agree that most Stratas are nightmares, though. I was really glad to leave that behind.