Car buying is not a rational exercise. If it was, most people wouldn't be buying gas guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks, and they would pay for home delivery (or rent a truck) when they buy their one-off oversized items once every other year.If I was in the market right now I'd for sure be looking at the Ford Lightning.
Something in the high 90th percentile of all auto trips are commuting/other local trips. These fall well in range of every electric. Not sure what reason someone would have to not get one (other than cost which is nosediving).
I thought about buying a Kia, looked under hood, then watched some maintenance videos and was like "Nope."just as a FYI Kia is really fighting the right to repair more aggressively other manufacturers
I thought about buying a Kia, looked under hood, then watched some maintenance videos and was like "Nope."
Several of their cars you have to pull off the stupid engine cover to add oil.
I agrre with most of your gripes expect for the sound system, every so often I do need to return fire.There will be a few that refuse to give up their brodozers, but not enough to matter. Electrics are good enough now for most people, improvements in battery's, charging, and infrastructure are still needed, but the tech is there.
The simple reality is operating cost for an electric is way lower than an ICE.
My only real gripe with electrics is the tendency to load them with gadgets. I don't need a Bluetooth washer fluid monitor, I don't need cabin mood lighting, or a howitzer sound system.
So many are moving to stuff like that. But they are also moving to synthetic so it's not like you are on the old 3 month/3000 mile schedule anyway. Like once a year. But you usually have to remove under body cladding, use special cartridge tools, ect.
But with an EV... not a problem
My 2007 Prius was pretty much a shade tree mechanic's delight (with the exception of headlight bulb changing). We now have a 2015 and 2020, both of which have restorted to the special tools, cartridge type oil filters, body cladding like you describe-unless one is really, really skinny and very adept it is essentially impossible todo an oil change without a carlift. Synthetic oil now required also-but the service department and independent shops still insist that 5k oil changes are required. I was aware of this behavior when I bought the later models but decided they will still the best option to purchase.
Meanwhile Subaru put the filter right on top.So many are moving to stuff like that. But they are also moving to synthetic so it's not like you are on the old 3 month/3000 mile schedule anyway. Like once a year. But you usually have to remove under body cladding, use special cartridge tools, ect.
But with an EV... not a problem
LOLEverything that I predicted in my opening thread / post HAS NOW BEGUN.
Fox news ingraham angle, telling her audience that... THE GOVERNMENT IS COMING TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CARS, if it runs on gasoline.
And while trying to scare people, ingraham displayed in the background a photo of Pete Buttigieg photoshopped as THE DEVIL.
Then, ingraham ranted about the electric car as ""government control"", where THE BIG BAD GOVERNMENT can hit THE KILL SWITCH (her words) and render your electric car inoperable.
Yeah, the filter on top started in 2012 on the Outback 2.5, IIRC. The H6 was done away with instead of upgrading it.Not on my H6 3.0
Probably for the best anyway. I was surprised how well the Ascent I had as a loaner did with the 2.4 turbo. Being a dealership loaner, I was... not gentle with itYeah, the filter on top started in 2012 on the Outback 2.5, IIRC. The H6 was done away with instead of upgrading it.
Yeah, I had one as a loaner twice for a month. I was quite happy with it's performance.Probably for the best anyway. I was surprised how well the Ascent I had as a loaner did with the 2.4 turbo. Being a dealership loaner, I was... not gentle with it
When your gauge tells you, you still have 40% life left.My 2007 Prius was pretty much a shade tree mechanic's delight (with the exception of headlight bulb changing). We now have a 2015 and 2020, both of which have restorted to the special tools, cartridge type oil filters, body cladding like you describe-unless one is really, really skinny and very adept it is essentially impossible todo an oil change without a carlift. Synthetic oil now required also-but the service department and independent shops still insist that 5k oil changes are required. I was aware of this behavior when I bought the later models but decided they will still the best option to purchase.
One thing that's hard to appreciate until you experience it is how quiet EV's are in the cabin (or at least the higher end ones) and what that does for music. You can keep it at a much more conversational level and appreciate more of the details of the music than an ICE with more engine/drivetrain buzz.
As an update to electric cars and the partisan narrative surrounding them.....
America's electric grid and energy generation may need a serious upgrade if we are to support this.
And of course, Republicans will oppose such things.
Imagine the message the state of California just sent to the EV industry.
California asks residents not to charge electric vehicles, days after announcing gas car ban
Fox is salivating at the opportunity.
I’ve posted this a couple of places but the grid is not really an issue for charging EVs (during summer peaks excepted but of course that hits everything including AC equally)My car is paid off, I don't see the next one(s) after that ever being anything but fully electric.
My wife wants and electric but she wants a Tesla...her choice but I wouldn't touch one. Not the best reviews and I don't want to put a dime into that dickhead's pocket if I can help it. I'm personally interested in the electric Kia Telluride (EV9) that is supposed to come out next year. And also the Lightning, even though an enclosed van or suv is more useful to me. Speaking of vans, how about some electric minivans already...I have a lot of gear to move every weekend and there are times I miss our old kid-moving Odyssey.
They definitely need to beef up the charging grids, and that includes coming up with one standard IMO. I saw a blog where someone took a cross country road trip and more than half of the chargers (that he needed) were either not working or had issues. The same effort needs to go into these that go into keeping gas stations running.
Speaking of gas and oil...it's pretty mind-blowing that anyone would ever miss them. Shows you how partisan anything can be. If democrats started featuring pizza in every ad you can bet pizza would become the worse food ever for half the country...
As an update to electric cars and the partisan narrative surrounding them.....
America's electric grid and energy generation may need a serious upgrade if we are to support this.
And of course, Republicans will oppose such things.
Imagine the message the state of California just sent to the EV industry.
California asks residents not to charge electric vehicles, days after announcing gas car ban
Fox is salivating at the opportunity.
The real issue is the availability of level 2 charging for people who don’t have access to garages or driveways with power.
No, it will be more like the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs. A few crazies but the country will move on just fine.
If you can charge regularly at home or at work I think an EV can definitely work today. With the resale prices even if you lose your job with access to charging it’s easy to sell the EV.The people who did not have chargers at their apartments in Austin seemed to mostly charge at work during the day plus catch the occasional supercharge if driving a Tesla.
When we moved to CA one of the requirements was that our new place have at least shared charging in the garage which has been fine.