How often do ICE owners need to rent an EV for a trip?

I have done 50k miles across my Model Y and Model 3. 100 mile round-trip commute to work, but at least only 3 days a week. It works great for me since I spent 1200 bucks on putting a 220 line in my garage (which required upgrading the service) and have access to the Tesla charging infrastructure when I need it.

This is ridiculous thinking likely coming from someone in the rarified air of having a long-range EV and reserved charging spots both at home and at work. Some practical points:

And thus why I never used the free charging at the local grocery store. I could take the free charge (about 10 miles of range added while in the store) and awkwardly carry the groceries from the shopping cart in front of the car to the trunk (access blocked by the charger, and usually requiring snaking between two cars…

Embrace the zipper merge - drive all the way to the barrels at a construction zone.

The disappearance of the ducks from the Cadillac logo. We used to be a proper country.

Well aware that there have always been more economical alternatives, like the old iron duke f-bodies and cologne V6 mustangs. You can find plenty of them at the junkyard / pick-a-part to help keep the V8's on the road or become the cheaper route to LS swaps.

Yes, the “secretary’s car.” As a past owner of a V6 Firebird I am speaking from a first-hand understanding.

EcoBoost Mustang. I understand that the 0-60 times are below the V8 muscle cars we all wax nostalgic on from 20+ years ago. I understand that they also deliver 30+ mpg on the highway. But still every time I see a pony on the back instead of the GT, and the V8 rumble is replaced by the rasp of the 4 cylinder, I can…

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God I hate Porsche. Drop the manual option from many of your cars due to allegedly low take rates, only to bring it back as a premium option that’s so damn special that you have to include lights / stickers to advertise its presence. Repeat the process with cloth seats and pretty much any non-greyscale colors. Also…

Dodge Caliber:

I get that the name is misleading and the capability has often been way oversold by Tesla / Musk.

Two money-hemorrhaging wrongs don’t make a right. Might as well put the motor in the middle and call it Fire-o while you’re at it.

The one that always gets me is Greg Moore’s crash at Fontana, just startling the severity of the wreck.

Don’t forget Tesla doesn’t have the massive army of dealers where they can just dump their inventory. The direct sales feature works great until you lose discipline around matching production to demand.

I kept it classy with the recent college grads in A4 Jettas back in the day (early naughts) - with the occasional foray into Cavalier territory.

Any road with a steep enough downward slope will charge your EV while you drive...

3rd gens look great in any shot besides the side profile which shows just how monstrous the front and rear overhangs were

Late Gen X here - I don’t know whose parents had the money to insure them on V8 pony cars back in the day, around me it was either the cheap small trucks (S10 and Ranger) or the ubiquitous Cavalier with enough bass to make all the loose bolts and beer cans rattle out.