Nissan Needs Investor Fast.

40k base model 63 kWh

52k for base model 87 kWh

Still a lot of money for so called family car at 40k and a measly 300-350 km range.

Yeah mental.

There's a lot of decent 2nd hand cars out there if you know what you're looking for and what to avoid like the wet Cam belt engines from ford and Peugeot and newer Opels, Mazda Diesels.

The older stuff is the best, simple, cheap, much better quality and far less electronics and software shite.

Humanity if fooked and it's not the climate that's the problem it's Man's inhumanity to Man and Greed.

Throughout most of the World the birth rate is in massive decline which is a serious worry, to many it will be a blessing until we see the consequences of an aging population and a lot less young people.

A major war is inevitable , we had a good run since 1945 greatly helped by the Atomic and especially Hydrogen bomb but our most serious challenge we face today is preventing a major world conflict which will no doubt halt the supply of goods and especially energy.

There are also the over use of plastic, plastic being dumped, over use of chemicals, additives in food, our world is contaminated, this focus on just climate change isn't going to make all the other issues we face go away which are a great threat to Human life and other species.

We are at a point in history where we are extremely technologically advanced yet we are far less advanced as a civilisation and technology hasn't allowed us to develop as a species in fact I believe it has done nothing but divide Humanity even more.

The planet is +0.65 degrees since satellite records began in 1979 , if it went just 1 degree C in the other direction it would have a lot more consequences.

In fairness if you're on a twitter, x or whatever it's called these days , and there's a thread called "climate emergency" then everything will seem like a emergency. People are recording everything these days so even a big hail shower is going to be " proof of anthropogenic climate change " !

Sink holes ? they've been happening forever, many of them in urban areas are due to builders or councils or even Farmers upsetting the flow of natural streams or directing water from drains in places it shouldn't be going.

I've seen here in my own area here what Farmers have done to natural streams over the decades and one of them in particular filled in a stream on his land without as much as piping it only to be effected by severe flooding and he ended up having to pipe it but he still filled it back in , this should never be allowed because the flooding caused by filling in just one stream was enormous and you can be sure this was repeated all over the Island.

I'm sorry but Cars and all the tax, tax on fuel are major sources of revenue for the Government, it's utter madness to think otherwise.

Regarding the rest I pretty much agree with it all. I believe we should be lobbying the E.U to make car manufacturers make proper small cars again, cheap and free of as much tech as possible to make them cheap as possible or at least make all the tech optional.

There should be super taxes on SUV especially the big heavy EV that can way close to 2.5 tonnes. + any car wider than 1.8 meters should be banned in my opinion, our roads and parking spaces are not designed for these monsters not to mention the danger they pose to cyclists and pedestrians due to the sheer weight and high bonnet.

lol, yeah but the thing is that people are buying cars now that are well beyond their budget just because the monthly payments seem affordable on PCP it's because of a deposit and the monthly payments are based on the cost of the car after this - the balloon which comes at year 3 which is the big stick which leads to the never ending never never designed to keep people hooked by not wanting to face that inevitable balloon.

We could all be driving older and older cars, I bought a 4 year old Cee'd there recently, petrol manual with 26,500 Kms. I plan to keep this car a long time. A perfectly good car and in 2 years I will own it and all it will cost me is a bit of maintenance and petrol.

Lad, the legal system benefits tremendously from fines in the lower courts. It costs to send people to prison but it benefits to fine.

VRT and VAT + fuel costs from cars are tremendous sourced of income for the Government.

There's a lot more pollution than just cars or rivers.

Here you go, as requested.

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/motor-vehicles-generate-6-2bn-in-taxes-for-state-says-report-1.4239993

"Motor tax revenues generated €6.2 billion for the Irish Exchequer last year"

That was just for the year 2019, as carbon tax increases and fuel costs get higher they rake in more money, they also tax car parts, as these costs go up they make more money and of course as car prices have risen massively over the last 5 or 6 years so does the tax revenue.

How could you not think car ownership is not a gravy train for the Government ? do you see the tax added onto cars ? 23% VAT, then add 7 - 41% the cost of the car in VRT. The average probably being 20-25%. This is insane amounts of tax.

The real incredible thing is that many people are quite willing to take out a loan and pay interest on 50% tax bill on a car, it boggles the mind, I won't be doing it again anyway.