Today's target
- do the post about Task 8
- we want to see progress where we can assess in which direction it is going.
For our project, we made a PowerPoint together with an audio file.
Mario & Joel
Powerpoint presentation about how ecological are electric cars
Task 7
We had a Skypecall on Tuesday afternoon with Daniel Gut, a colleague of Joel. Actually, we wanted to do this on Zoom. But due some technical problems, we had to switch to Skype. Despite the starting difficulties, we got some more useful information.
He told us that it is extremely expensive to drive a vintage car of this class. The cost and the fear of getting stuck somewhere always plays into it. But he did not want to tell us the exact cost, that would be too much of a deterrent (abschrecken) were his words. Surprisingly, he has even thought about selling the car and switching to a more modern one. Because he is an "old-fashioned" driver, the only option for him for now is a classic combustion (Verbrenner) engine. However, he is very curious about the results of our research and would like to be surprised about the conclusion we come to. Perhaps he could be influenced by a very positive result for the electric car. For him, however, the cost over the longer lifetime (5 - 10 years) and the range would be the most important factors. We will stay in contact with him.
Joel and Mario
I hope that I can show with this project if it would be economically and ecologically beneficial to switch to an electric car.
The many repair costs, road taxes, service intervals and the high gasoline prices make driving an expensive "fun". I think with an electric car you will be noticeably cheaper on the road today even though the purchase price is high.
But I can't say if the electric car is really more ecological. I think it is extremely depending on the duration of use and the place where you use it (in which country).