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Why didn’t you vote with your dollars?

The interface of the id4 was known to you prior to purchase and the Chevy bolt existed…

We needed a third electric car and instead of buying a second audi etron we bought a second Chevy bolt for 1/4 the price solely based on the interface and controls.

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It was a weird period in 2022 (ish?) when the US electric car tax credit was changing. The Mach-E was our first choice, but the delivery would have been too late to receive the credit (IIRC). We didn't love the interface, but it wasn't a deal breaker, especially for the tax credit difference.

Because we live in a complex world with minimal choices and we can't vote with our wallet on every single issue for every single purchase.

So true, voting with your wallet (for myriad of practical reasons) isn't always possible. And sometimes you/spouse/friend/whoever will often say "how bad can it be"! And often we ourselves wonder "Ah! I can get used to it".

You can when buying a car though? Like, if this car sucks, buy a different car.

There are a thousand things to consider when buying a car and maybe the interface sucks but you are more concerned about MPGs. I feel like that was a pretty easy thing to consider.

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