Electric Car Ownership - Any Experiences?
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kigmatzomat
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It's a necrothread but since I didn't do it, I'll chime in b/c we just bought an 2024 Equinox EV. Good deal between 0% financing, the ev credit, pre-black Friday event and, oddly, a Costco discount. The minivan was turning into a money pit and we wanted to dodge the inevitable price hikes when tariffs on steel and what-not show up.
I did the math and dollar-to-dollar, at $3/gal gas, we'll get equivalent to 100mpg. From an emissions standpoint, at US grid standard, the CO2 from generation also equates to around 100mpg. The other car is a Kia hybrid that gets 42mpg, which I used to be pretty happy about.
The 48A/11kw charger is good for 30+ mi/hr of charge. I do need a NACS adapter so we can use older Tesla stations that aren't equipped with the CCS plugs, though gen4 stations are slowly rolling out. It only supports 150kw speeds, which less than amazing for charge rates but means the 350kw chargers that share power on two ports won't slow us down.
We'll be using it for a trip this weekend where we can make one leg on a full charge with a solid buffer but will need a major recharge for the trip home.
The Meijers chain has started installing chargers, apparently funded by the federal govt. We have quite a few around here and several chargers have been announced on our longest route which will make the jitters go away.
Not a huge fan of the lack of android auto/carplay but it's got 8yrs of voice/map service and we'll likely sell it in year 7.
I did the math and dollar-to-dollar, at $3/gal gas, we'll get equivalent to 100mpg. From an emissions standpoint, at US grid standard, the CO2 from generation also equates to around 100mpg. The other car is a Kia hybrid that gets 42mpg, which I used to be pretty happy about.
The 48A/11kw charger is good for 30+ mi/hr of charge. I do need a NACS adapter so we can use older Tesla stations that aren't equipped with the CCS plugs, though gen4 stations are slowly rolling out. It only supports 150kw speeds, which less than amazing for charge rates but means the 350kw chargers that share power on two ports won't slow us down.
We'll be using it for a trip this weekend where we can make one leg on a full charge with a solid buffer but will need a major recharge for the trip home.
The Meijers chain has started installing chargers, apparently funded by the federal govt. We have quite a few around here and several chargers have been announced on our longest route which will make the jitters go away.
Not a huge fan of the lack of android auto/carplay but it's got 8yrs of voice/map service and we'll likely sell it in year 7.
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