“...the most common animal you could hit which could ruin your day (and your car).”

A 12-year old, $11,000 car in a country that all but requires you to have a car to function, short of maybe 10 major cities? Hardly an expensive, indulgent purchase for what it is. And all at usurious rates guaranteed to lead to a repo anyway...if a hurricane doesn’t get you first.

It costs a lot of money to be poor.

Yes, they will jump from the woods right into the side of a car.  Growing up in PA, I’ve seen and heard just about every deer story there is.  Here, it is not IF you hit one, but WHEN.

This time of year is insane, dead deer everywhere all over the state. If you drive after dark, and especially on a back road, you need to be at DEFCON 1 with your alertness.

Edge case? Are you f’ing kidding me? A deer is by FAR the most common animal you could hit which could ruin your day (and your car). It’s way more likely to be in a road than a human (even homeless ones pushing bikes in Arizona). I have contacted precisely one thing in my 30+ years of driving over nearly 1 million…

Is that the Chicago parking meters?

It was only season 1, but still in the top 3 episodes ever, IMO.  M...as in Mancy.

As much as I hate the Cybertruck, this is completely normal for a lightbar. It’s why no OEMs sell them or install them.

A key difference being that my dashcam does not mysteriously turn itself off before I go all Leroy Jenkins on someone.

A nice side effect of my dashcam is that is makes ME a more, umm, polite driver. Any time I get fired up by others’ stupidity, I think, do I really want to record my own aggressive response?  

The “WTF” part is a feature, not a bug, of these autonomous companies. They want all the $$$ and none of the responsibility.

I think most people overlook the affects of speed, HVAC, battery degradation, and charging issues you note. And fast-charging also kills your battery quicker and costs a lot. Your 300 reduced to 240 practical is spot-on, and I personally log 5 to 10 trips a month in that range. Which is why for me it’s 300 rated,…

I read the question as how many BEV miles. The question does not even make sense for a PHEV, as there is no range anxiety. I had a Pacifica PHEV rental for a week in Maine. Enterprise was kind enough to provide it with 2% battery, and we could not find a single charger all week (very rural client trip), so we just…

300 miles. I have numerous client trips per month that are 200 to 250 mile round trips. I have a mom who is a 260 mile roundtrip and a brother who is 230 miles. These are nearly all highway, 75 mph, where the EV ranges crash. And I live where it gets cold, so I use heat. And I’m not stopping to recharge at my clients…

America prior to the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Acts (as amended)? Those things both added costs and complexity for nearly everybody. But guess what? We seldom have rivers on fire or air you can see anymore. Places without these? Take a dip in the Ganges River or a stroll through New Delhi for a glimpse of America…

Not to be pedantic, but $770K is 60% over his income...but also 160% of his income. Either way you view it, those are crap stats.

Yes please!

Create & Escalate is Cop 101 these days.