I am in the market for a car right now and have set my budget at $30,000 max. It's a huge investment for me and I'm trying to get the best bang for my buck, which is hard due to covid inflation and the chip/stock shortages. Not many deals around and the used market is over inflated.
Given stock levels I probably won't be able to get new until next year so have been looking at close to new used cars from dealers. I've basically narrowed it down to something like a Mitsubishi ASX or a hatch like a Kia Cerato. Both have demo/used 2021 models with 5000ish kms available at my local dealers for just under RRP. Not by much though! :/
A family member pointed out that EVs will only get better in price and petrol cars will lose a lot of value in the near future. Given it's such a huge investment for me and I plan to use it for the next 10+ years, they've basically told me it's not worth the money and I'd be losing $$$ in the long term.
I wanted to get Ozbargain's opinion. I don't know if I can stretch to an EV, but it's got me thinking that it might be the better value prospect. That, or get a shittier car between $10k - $15k and just accept that it's going to be VERY overpriced due to covid inflation. At least then I'm only sending $10k down the drain and not $30k!
Would you buy a new(ish) petrol car atm given all of the buzz and changes being made in the EV sector?
@Ryanek: I think you're right.
But we will have to move away from Silicon and Transistors, and move to another compound, and probably using lasers to pass the information. I also think we will move away from binary (on/off stage), to using trits (-ve/zero/+ve). Using three-power states is going to be a very difficult to develop at first, since, this is essentially a quantum computer that we're looking into.
So where our current computing is somewhat of a complexity and is seemingly wide/inefficient:
2^(64) contains 1.84 x 10^19 bits of information.
3^(27) contains 7.6 x 10^12 trits of information.
Whilst, this is less, it is still competitive and very impressive for being much simpler and much much more efficient. Or we can upscale and build a more mainstream system that is more comparable to today, and it will be a whole lot faster, but still slightly more efficient and basic like:
3^(42) contains 1.1 x 10^20 trits of information.