Pretty sure people everywhere buy second hand cars, but somehow car makers still sell millions of new cars every month. Surely more people can afford this kind of electric conversion kit than a new electric car.
Yeah but I'm pretty sure that most of those here who use cars to go to cities are those with low cost second hand cars. The nice ones are usually sitting parked in garages, used mainly for out of city or whole family trips - public transport is actually being used a lot here, however the current issue is that it doesn't connect out of city areas well, forcing people living out of city to use cars to commute.