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Thread: Electric car thread
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08-29-2022, 06:23 PM #801
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08-29-2022, 06:30 PM #802
Um. Actually. I'm all for EV. The link is for my local CBS affiliate news page. So this is a semi-local story. No click bait here. It happened in the southern part of the state. I live in the opposite corner of this [very small] state. The story is interesting. I shouldn't have to explain why. Volunteer firefighters all over have to deal with something new with the rise of EVs. It's also funny to bag on [insert car manufacturer here]. Notice how I didn't say "Fuckin EV"? Instead, I called out Chevy. And recently didn't we cover in this thread something about some authority saying that one shouldn't charge in the garage because of fire? None of that makes me against EVs. I'd love one. I'm waiting 2-3 years solely because of where I'm at with my current set of cars.
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08-29-2022, 07:38 PM #803Registered User
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08-29-2022, 07:59 PM #804
TWIS (The Woman I’m Seeing) has had a Model 3 for around 8 months now. The customer service lives up to the legends, it bites. But I’m here to say the thing is a blast to drive. Really really fun. It’s well suited to 100+ mile trips. For what you outlined it would work really well, and be lotsa fun to boot. She’s taken it on trips from NM deep into CO. Got >9000 miles on it.
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08-29-2022, 08:33 PM #805Registered User
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Electric car thread
Piping in to say something along these lines.
Have had a 3 for around 3 yrs now, its fast, its quiet, AWD is great in snow, it was easily the best option for a reasonable price back when we got it, its fairly comfortable, the EV range thing is really not an issue unless you do 1000+ mile road trips regularly, but its not even close to a luxury vehicle.
Theres a few things I could complain about, the visibility out the back is very bad for instance, we’ve had the windows freeze shut so you cant open the doors, the front camber was poor and resulted in premature tire wear, but the one thing that drives me nuts more than anything else are the wiper controls, or lack of physical controls. I have found it downright dangerous at times. I’d much rather have wiper controls on a stalk and drive mode on the touchscreen.
Would I buy another - dunno I’d probably be looking for a Kia or Hyundai if I could find one for anywhere near MSRP.
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08-29-2022, 09:38 PM #806Registered User
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The wiper setup sucks, luckily it rains so much in Bellingham Ted just has to turn the wipers on and he should be fine for a few months.
the constant reconnection of my phone to play music is the worst IMO. No CarPlay sucks. And the auto- park feature when you are rolling slowly unbuckled drives me nuts. And it’s hard to put in neutral for car washes, and impossible to do so if you unbuckled beforehand to reach the payment kiosk. That was embarrassing, took me a bit to figure out why it was auto-parking over and over without me touching the accelerator or anything.
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08-29-2022, 09:42 PM #807
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08-29-2022, 09:52 PM #808Registered User
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True it’s a bit hard to understand and seems weird, but me coming from a 20 year car to a Tesla is a total trip so I’m like Encino Man just wowed by it all.
And having a ridiculous amount of torque at any speed is the tits.
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08-29-2022, 10:55 PM #809
Elon Musk. There, I talked you out of it!!
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08-30-2022, 04:07 PM #810
I was asking my Hyundai dealer about pricing, if they sell above msrp they get a fine. Too many and they could potentially lose thier franchise.
I had to drive a gas pot recently. Its a 2.4l pontiac vibe with decent power but it felt like such a slug, waiting for the power ramp up.
I can see needing tires sooner than an ice car though, it's hard not to accelerate like you're racing.
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08-30-2022, 06:51 PM #811
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08-31-2022, 10:13 AM #812
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08-31-2022, 10:19 AM #813Registered User
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Does everyone who owns an EV have 240v already installed, or is anyone using a normal outlet?
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08-31-2022, 10:27 AM #814watch out for snakes
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08-31-2022, 10:35 AM #815
Liberals War on Pickup Trucks. Good Thing or Bad Thing?
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08-31-2022, 10:39 AM #816
@SB, Do you have a point?
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08-31-2022, 10:43 AM #817
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08-31-2022, 11:07 AM #818Dad core
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We 110v charged our leaf for a while and it adds about 3-4 miles of range per hour or 20-24h for a full 70mile charge. This works if you charge every night and don’t go on long trips just around town. We now have a 240v outlet that charges to full in 3 hours or about 20-25mi per hour of charging.
For the leaf around town it didn’t really matter but if you want a longer range car you probably want a faster charger.
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08-31-2022, 11:16 AM #819
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08-31-2022, 11:20 AM #820
Curious, what’s the battery life cost with 240V or rapid charging versus trickle charging with 120V? FIL has a Mitsubishi PHEV and fits the description of short trips around town, and only charges using an existing 15A outlet in his garage. He seems to think his battery life savings will be significant. Of course with the hybrid, he is not constrained by battery charging availability.
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08-31-2022, 11:32 AM #821
I've charged on both in my garage. The regular 110 volt charger is enough if the car sits at home and you drive sparingly. When I had a highway commute and the car sat in a commercial garage while I worked, I had to use the Level 2 to get topped back up overnight.
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08-31-2022, 12:31 PM #822
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08-31-2022, 03:01 PM #823
As others have noted, 120V charging is pretty worthless. I had a 100mi RT commute when I bought my EV so had to charge on 240V. Unfortunately my parking spot was 30-40ft from my house, so I installed a short 50A 240V circuit to a box on the exterior, then bought a big ass 6ga RV extension cord and ran that out to my charger. Was only planning to be at that house for another couple years so didn't want to spend the coin to bury cable for a permanent installation. IT worked well enough.
New house has the panel in the garage so it'll be pretty easy to just add a circuit.
My understanding is that 240V charging has no significant effect on battery life vs 120V. DC fast charging regularly does have a measurable impact, but still fairly minimal overall.
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08-31-2022, 06:18 PM #824
I'm having trouble understanding why. Is it that the dealer doesn't want to sell/maintain them because they're heavily invested in ICE cars, or Brandon bullshit, or are they selling anyway so straight up gouging? WA is a blue state, and my town is bluer than most, but the next county is purple for sure. I can't imagine they sell many electric cars.
I did see one drive by a few minutes ago (while sitting on a brewery patio). Pretty good looking car. No pic of the Ionic, but here are two of our drinking companions
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08-31-2022, 06:21 PM #825Registered User
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Well that settles it; DOG gives e-vehicles two paws up.
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