This was a big factor in me getting my first new car.

I was always a die hard used car buyer but the mileage you’re looking at before prices start to seem reasonable is a bit nuts. It was basically $5k more for a brand new car vs one with 50-75k miles. 

yeah back then i was getting sub $10k offers on my 03 S2000 with 1 year left on the CPO warranty. Good times.

Still have the car. 

With backup cameras and sensors on even the most pedestrian cars, you kind of need to be trying to hit stuff. It won’t be long before pretty much everything on the road has those.

Once you can actually tell what’s going on you don’t need to park by braille 

That’s probably just good SEO. Write Tesla on anything and it’ll get 2x the clicks. If you think it’s going viral that can be $1000's 

had the same experience. Was back driving my S2000 it felt really slow compared to my EV. When the engine’s revved up it’s pretty quick but off peak acceleration is kinda disappointing. 

Imagine if you bought this option on your October 2016 lease. Basically you’re never gonna get anything for it. 

This makes a lot of sense. 75kw Urban superchargers are a bit overkill for local users, and deploying more 10kw (30-40mile /hour) chargers will give you plenty of range at much lower cost and be a lot easier on your battery.

Part of me thinks this will be like the “$35k Model 3". Porsche will be production limited for a while on this car and if you want an early car you’d better check the options boxes.

Also watch out for that dealer market adjustment.

Unfortunately it’s been left to die on the vine. A hybrid variant would be a cool alternative to the highlander hybrid.

As it is the fuel economy is pretty woeful. 23 highway means it gets crushed even by minivans. Even the Explorer gets 27. 

California introduced something similar last year. I was OK with it but it also was part of an increase in the gas tax. At least on the federal level you don’t have the problem that you’re taxing EV drivers for out of state miles.

Yeah even after tax credits a lot of them are expensive for what they are. Leaf can still break into the 30s after tax credits but it’s not surprising that after a few years its value converges with that of other Nissans on the related B0 platform Juke and Versa.

Depends on where you live but plugshare.com is the place to look. You’d be surprised 

You’ll often see 2025 as the projected year but battery price reductions have been outstripping projections for the last few years so I lean on the optimistic side here. Also note this will be different for different segments of the market (luxury, economy etc.) 

This is driven by a few things:
1) ICE cars are getting…

It’s a worthy successor to the E39.

Forbidden Fruit

The annoying thing is you know the first 1/2 year of production is going to have 5 figure dealer “market adjustments” 

With a lot of analysts predicting EVs will be cheaper than gasoline cars by 2022 and VW delaying many of their new EVs until then, they’d damn well better cost less than old diesels.

I was looking forward to some A+ climate denialism in these comments but it seems like everyone’s just switched to FUD about this or that technology. Disappointing. 

That was done years ago.

Chademo and CCS are still duking it out somewhat but basically all the stations have both plugs on them.

Tesla has their own connector but they also have the best network so who cares. 

*citation needed*

I could crap on biofuels but I’m resolving to be more all of the above.

Please start fueling your vehicle with non-corn biofuel and I’ll continue driving my EV.