Auto Gourmet

03/26/2026

So the default arguments you’ll hear from electric car owners are:

1. They’re cheaper to own

2. They’re faster

I challenge the first because you have to consider capital losses. And the price of a tank full of electricity can be pretty high unless it comes from your own roof.

If you’re comparing the cost to a grey import Nissan Cube that costs $10k, I can assure you the Cube is much cheaper in terms of full cost of ownership.

As to e-cars being faster. 12 points man: that’s all you get. You don’t want fast.

Besides a microwave is faster than an oven. Where do you cook your Xmas dinner then? Eh?

And they stuff those electric cars full of all that annoying tech: alarms, alerts, lights, plus software-controlled steering, suspension, and braking.

If you like driving these cars won’t let you. These cars are for people that are living as though they’re already dead. Mental zombies amongst us.

I hasten to point out of course that that last complaint isn’t peculiar to electric cars; it’s all new cars.

So while I’m driving, it’s going to be old cars from here on in. And if they retire petrol then we’ll have to convert an old car to electricity to dodge all that tech. Or just not drive.