If you aren't charging at home, you're missing out on the biggest advantage of owning an EV. It's more convenient and cheaper than charging somewhere else.
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When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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If you aren't charging at home, you're missing out on the biggest advantage of owning an EV. It's more convenient and cheaper than charging somewhere else.
I think you’ll find most people in this thread have said many times EV’s are convenient for homeowners but not renters. Yeah I’d say your use case would not support an EV, and I would have told you not to get one prior to your purchase knowing this.
Ok which one of you is flipping the bird to the cybertrucks? https://www.theautopian.com/cyberbu...owners-are-sick-of-getting-the-middle-finger/
I tend to laugh and shake my head when I see them because they look so stupid. Like Pontiac Aztek level stupid.
I’m not sure that it would anger me to the point of giving them the finger. I guess if you’re really against Elon maybe, but then wouldn’t you do it to all Tesla models?
Had a Dodge Hornet PHEV as a rental this week, no bueno. Small battery life, I think it was just 30 miles or so, My biggest complaint was the turning signals being a wonky design. My hotel had a chargepoint station but I believe it was just a level 1 charger as it was insanely slow.
Would like to do it again with a better EV with more range and a better charging situation.
Would like to do it again with a better EV with more range and a better charging situation.
A lot of PHEV don’t have a very long electric range. The idea is you can do most of your day to day or even commute travel on a charge and still have the benefit of gas for longer trips
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I've seen studies where most people that have PHEV's don't even charge them. Not sure why you would buy a vehicle that is worse in nearly every way to it's gas counterpart if you don't charge it.
Nice to have atleast 4 stalls per place.
That's a good start. Selfishly I'd really like to see a couple more spots south of Iowa City on the Avenue of the Saints. Right now the only DCFC locations on that route are Tesla Superchargers in Mt Pleasant. It would be nice to see some 150kW capable CCS stalls in Mt Pleasant.
We have the Hornet RT plus. It took a bit of getting used to, and a few critical software updates, But now my wife absolutely loves it.
I don't know anything about that car but my PHEV only had 18 mile electric range and none on the highway at high speed. It was still pretty awesome saving me tons of money on gas with gas hitting $6.20 at one point during the three years I had it.
The key was that I leased it and wasn't stuck with all the maintenance of an aging hybrid car. I'd guess even that paltry 18 mile range covered 70-80% of my driving. I had to plug in every single night though. If I had something like Rav4 prime with more of a 40 mile electric range I'm sure it would have been upwards of 90% electric. The other thing is with the small battery even a level one charger can charge up twice a day sometimes, so my 18 was sometimes 36 and a Rav4 prime could sometimes be 80.
With an actual EV I'm only plugging in half the nights and that's only because I only have a level 1 charger. If I had a level 2 charger at home I'd probably plug in 3-4 nights a month.
In the end I'm glad I upgraded from PHEV to EV, but I don't regret going with a PHEV at all especially because I was never on the hook for maintenance of a high mileage hybrid and the EV selection was incredibly limited 3 years ago compared to when I shopped this time. The PHEV I had and the EV I have now are incredibly similar vehicles in terms of what they do and in 2020 or 2021 there just weren't a lot of offerings outside of Tesla.
A PHEV demands someone can charge at home even more than an EV. It's really pointless vs a hybrid if you don't have a garage to plug into, but any old outlet will do. As a rental it's probably pointless.
In town for work is wonderful. What would happen in an evacuation situation as is happening in Florida currently? Still need a back up gas powered vehicle.
No you don't. Charge up to 100% before hitting the road, and the Supercharger stations are all still operational along the main evacuation routes to refuel EV's. Can't say the same for many of the gas stations. Also, if you're stopped on the highway, EV's use practically no power. Even running A/C doesn't draw much from the HV battery. The traction motors are the main draw, and putting along slowly is more efficient in an EV than a gas powered vehicle.
Power isn't out there yet. And gotta remember that gas stations require power to pump gas into vehicles. You can only store up so much gas in portable cans.
See, I struggle with this. I’m not opposed to EVs, but it needs to happen organically through private investments in my opinion. I’m just not convinced something like this is worth $16 million of tax money. I can think of many other things I would like to see government funds put toward.
Full charge won't matter... Took 7 hours for me last night to drive what should have taken under 3. Also there are no charging stations or gas for that matter on alligator Alley to Miami.
Not to get off topic with evs but I am eyeballing the new kia carnival hybrid. Such a nice looking vehicle with all the amenities.
