In 2019, there were approximately 22.8 billion credit, debit, and prepaid cards in use worldwide. This number is expected to reach 29.31 billion by 2023.
The number of general purpose and private label debit cards increased 3.8% to 6.28 billion between 2019 and 2020.
In 2021, the overall credit card in circulation reached 64 million.
According to a Forbes Advisor survey from February 2023, 54% of consumers use a physical or virtual debit card and 36% of consumers use a physical or virtual credit card.
And the vast majority of those not using them are not valuable as customers.
The credits aren’t. You might find a model that say a particular time are a close comparison but the really is most of the the time you are sacrificing drivetrain power or features even after the EV credit + slightly lower fuel costs. And when you do have vehicles in this category it’s economy vehicles.
Because I hate most of you and am only here to bitch about moving away from Reddit but having to listen to the worst fucking privacy zealots and tankies.
27.5k And you’ll get less car for it. It’s small, and bumping it up to 2lt puts it over 30k. Every EV it’s still more expensive, even with credits most of the time, then it’s equivalent ICE competition.
Not trying to argue but we have all of that in the states. It’s slightly more expensive, but again, I make more.
My point, is it’s not a hell scape like reddit/lemmy would have you believe.
Starting at 90 or 100k you’ll find that the quality of living here is superior in most aspects. Probably not worth leaving friends and family behind of course.
I’m not reading you CAN’T, but filtering software is FAR better than the shit we got around. If you lock your bootloader there isn’t much you’re going to be able to do except use other devices available to you.
Accent, clothing and style.