I’m a Costco member, so I may need to go that route when I’m ready to buy.

True, but most cities tend to have really robust power grids and people tend to drive less if they own a car in the city so they won’t be charging as often, so I don’t think EVs will hit the grids quite as hard. In the largest cities, you have a large majority of the population that doesn’t even own vehicles/

Seems like that extension cord is a trip and fall lawsuit just waiting to happen,. He needs to secure that cord with some gaffer tape.

EVs aren’t really that bad in terms of consumption if the majority of them are charging at home in a garage overnight. Typically you drive about 30-40 miles during the day and plug in your car to charge during the wee hours of the night (you can set the car to wait to starting charging during off-peak hours), so most…

I was checking the inventory at my local Toyota dealer and they had the RAV4 Hybrids (not the Prime, just a regular hybrid) with a $5000 dealer adjustment and $1600 worth of dealer installed accessories added. For a non-hybrid they were adding a mere $3k markup.

What is really stupid about all of this is that historically gas price aren’t that high. In mid-2008 people in New York were pay $4.41 a gallon, which is $5.69 in today’s dollars.

Yeah, it is a puzzling vehicle design. I feel like the F-150 Lightning is going to just crush it in sales (assuming Ford can ramp up manufacturing quickly).

That Mercedes wiper looks disturbingly sexual in the way it thrusts up and down.

Poorly designed self-driving vehicles being unleashed on public roads is actually much higher on the list of things I care about than F1 racing, because who wins an F1 race doesn’t really affect me personally.

It looks like the reason for this is that the Ioniq maxes out at 220 kW, which is comparable to 250 kW on the Supercharger network. 800V should have more headroom for faster speeds in the future though, with models down the road being able to get closer to the 350 kW max that I’ve seen on some of the Electrify America…

So I guess this “missing car fished out of a river after decades” day on Jalopnik.

What about Back to the Future?

Why stop at a V8? Go for a used Phaeton W12.

On the flip side a Camry often has a few more extra gadgets and gizmos that might break compared to a Corolla of a similar vintage (power seats, TPMS system, etc.).

We actually once had a guy pick us up at SNA in his Uber and the back seats were covered in plastic. We figured there was about a 50/50 chance that we’d be murdered instead of taken to our hotel.

When oil prices cratered last year, it shut down a lot of domestic oil production. The US producers had already been hurting because the Saudis and Russians had been in a price war with them, and it pushed a lot of producers into bankruptcy.

Don’t forget get the costs associated with cleaning up puke from a college student who got a ride home in your Tesla after the bars closed.

Around here in Seattle, a lot of the Uber and Lyft drivers are driving hybrids or EVs because SeaTac requires 45 MPG or better for drivers making airport pickups, which tend to be some of the more lucrative routes. I once got picked up by a guy in a Bolt who just LOVED it for his Lyft driving.

Nah, I think the dealer network would have their heads. They can’t have their sales guys sitting around with their thumbs up their asses because they have no inventory to sell.

The other reason why 250 miles is a good sweet spot is so you can better sell the EV to people who don’t have charging at home. This lets you drive around during the week and then top off the car somewhere with a fast charger over the weekend.