My '66 gets about 8 mpg but is still on the road after 60 years.
I’m not sure what the “true cost of ownership”means? It was $910 for us to put in the plug. And with about 10,000 miles on the car so far the only thing we’ve had to pay for was about a $150 increase in our energy bill. But that’s a reduction compared to our $300/month gas bill.
Fair enough, and I can only speak from my personal experience. Any issues I've had with a gas engine going through water or mud has come from water getting into electronics. A bead of silicone around the distributor cap, making sure all little o-rings and gaskets are in good shape and seated properly, etc. Pretty easy to do when there are only a couple of things to check, but on an EV it literally everything that has to be checked.
That seems like a lot of miles. Wasn't it yesterday you got the thing ?
She drives a little over 100 miles a day. So 500 a week, 2000 a month. Give or take. Which is why it’s been so nice. That’s also 2 oil changes we haven’t had to pay for so far.
you can't even spell it right given a second opportunity.
not really....just cements my knowledge in that you aren't very smart.
It was about in the same price range of the cars we were looking at but it's a smaller car than what we were originally shopping for. So that was the trade off for us. We were looking in the typical small SUV bracket, my wife liked the Honda CRV and was OK with the HRV. So it's more comparable to the HRV; which decently equipped models were like $26k, and we ended up at $27,800~ish on the Chevy. So only a matter of like $45~ish/month on the payment compared to that, it was significantly cheaper than the CRV, which at the time we couldn't find for under $33k. Another tradeoff was not having AWD, which is a bummer but manageable. Not sure why they didn't include that in the Bolt lineup, most EV's have an option for 4 wheel motors.
www.thedrive.com
Moore's Law, babyJust saw this, and it shows how quickly the EV world is changing:
Lucid's New 469-HP Electric Motor Weighs Just 70 Pounds
Lucid's new lightweight drive unit is found in the front of Formula E's new Gen 3 cars, and it's extremely powerful for its size.
"I know what you're thinking—what about the other pieces needed to complete a drive unit like the single-speed transmission, differential, and inverter? Well, that's all included in the 70.5-pound official figure, which makes this all the more impressive."
That's crazy shit.
I've seen some stuff on solid state batteries, specifically what Nissan is building, and they're trying to: "We want to get the cost down [compared with standard lithium-ion batteries] by 50 percent, to double the energy density and to offer three times the charging speed."
