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Well. Mushrooms. Or you go visit a charger for 30 minutes.
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We have been on the @MAIZEandBLUE09 plan for 30 years.
1 car is exclusively around town, with a 2nd vehicle that carries more people, is more comfortable, and has extended range (400+ miles).
Changing the 'around town' care from gas to electric means nothing.
In fact, the day I don't have to go to the gas station or the oil change place, can't get here fast enough.
It won't be for everyone at first, but it will get better. And if it doesn't, don't care.
1 car is exclusively around town, with a 2nd vehicle that carries more people, is more comfortable, and has extended range (400+ miles).
Changing the 'around town' care from gas to electric means nothing.
In fact, the day I don't have to go to the gas station or the oil change place, can't get here fast enough.
It won't be for everyone at first, but it will get better. And if it doesn't, don't care.
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You need to care, we only have one Earth.
My pickup has a 500 mile range.
My ass only has a 300 mile range.
Imagine my predicament
My ass only has a 300 mile range.
Imagine my predicament
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How long until the flying electric cars
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Interesting
Might sell my hellcat for one
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1 month update.
Wife has about 2000 miles on the car so far in the last month, just got the power bill and it added $90 to the bill. Which is basically what she would have paid to fill up her car twice and go roughly 800 miles with her old car. So we're seeing a pretty significant savings so far, especially with gas prices creeping up again.
The "real" range of a full charge has been somewhere around 220 miles (of the 249 projected); highway speeds drain the battery faster than city driving or even back-roads driving. So she gets more if she takes the back roads to work, even though it's a few miles longer, because she's going slower speeds and basically any time you take your foot off the gas it starts pumping power back into the battery.
So far the experience has been great. An extremely fun car to drive around, though I would guess that any of the electric cars are fun to drive because of their responsiveness.
Wife has about 2000 miles on the car so far in the last month, just got the power bill and it added $90 to the bill. Which is basically what she would have paid to fill up her car twice and go roughly 800 miles with her old car. So we're seeing a pretty significant savings so far, especially with gas prices creeping up again.
The "real" range of a full charge has been somewhere around 220 miles (of the 249 projected); highway speeds drain the battery faster than city driving or even back-roads driving. So she gets more if she takes the back roads to work, even though it's a few miles longer, because she's going slower speeds and basically any time you take your foot off the gas it starts pumping power back into the battery.
So far the experience has been great. An extremely fun car to drive around, though I would guess that any of the electric cars are fun to drive because of their responsiveness.
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It's been great. She uses about 100 miles daily, comes home and plugs it in. It's been pretty excellent so far. Haven't tried using a public charger yet; partially because the car is always charged. Basically gives us a 100 mile radius to drive it without worrying about public chargers. Essentially means we could drive to the other side of the state and back on 1 charge.
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For context, my larger SUV can be used for longer trips. Most people don't need two vehicles capable of long road trips. Saving $200/month on gas is a pretty big perk. I agree that if it were your only car, you'd have to think about how you'd ever want to use it and if you're OK with stopping to charge along the way. If we drove it Mackinac, we'd have to be OK with stopping to charge for an hour on the way and back. But for how we're using it, it's absolutely perfect so far.
That blows my mind.
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I was hoping for the 1 earth gif.
I haven't even made it an environmental argument. It's entirely a convivence one so far. Saves us about $200/month in gas, and so far have yet to need charging outside the house. Always ready to go. In 5 months the gas savings will have paid for the installation of the outlet to charge. Honestly, it's probably saving us a little more because we're using my car less as well on the weekends. And mine only gets like real world 23mpg.
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EVs have basically replaced the bicycle.I was hoping for the 1 earth gif.
I haven't even made it an environmental argument. It's entirely a convivence one so far. Saves us about $200/month in gas, and so far have yet to need charging outside the house. Always ready to go. In 5 months the gas savings will have paid for the installation of the outlet to charge. Honestly, it's probably saving us a little more because we're using my car less as well on the weekends. And mine only gets like real world 23mpg.
You can travel in the city and be smug about it.
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My '66 gets about 8 mpg but is still on the road after 60 years.I was hoping for the 1 earth gif.
I haven't even made it an environmental argument. It's entirely a convivence one so far. Saves us about $200/month in gas, and so far have yet to need charging outside the house. Always ready to go. In 5 months the gas savings will have paid for the installation of the outlet to charge. Honestly, it's probably saving us a little more because we're using my car less as well on the weekends. And mine only gets like real world 23mpg.
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My wife drives to basically Lansing every day from Ann Arbor. Not quite bicycle range. It's the perfect commuter vehicle. At this point I don't ever expect that to change. I think you have to experience the convivence of always having a full charge, and how fun they are to drive, to really get it.
It will take more convincing for me to switch my larger car from gas. The charging/battery tech will have to improve significantly before I could make that jump -- especially in price. And I think that's the problem manufacturers are dealing with right now, no one is going to buy a $70,000 EV SUV or Truck that you could buy for $30-40,000 in a gas version. But to replace my wife's $24,000 Trax, it was much easier to justify basically the same car in electric for a few thousand more.