I guarantee you will not be able to find any ford dealers that will not be charging a minimum of $10K markup.

Some destinations have charging... without running an extension cord or sleeping at the charger. I’ve done both of those things, but it was 5-7 years ago when driving a short-range EV on a long road trip. But it’s just not reality for long-range EVs, now.

Yeah, it can be 0-30 minutes added each way.

Yep, it’s just crazy how much cheaper it is to power a 7000 lb truck than a WRX (or my MINI).

A Lightning, conservatively, can drive 2 miles per kWh of electricity. National average is ~$0.13/kWh, so it’s about 6.5 cents per mile!

For a long range, fast-charging EV, 450-miles each way can be a breeze. Like 0-30 mins of added time.

Model 3 has autopilot (lane keeping, auto cruise, etc.) standard. The gas savings would be huge right now, too, since gas is $1+ higher than that for a BMW that takes premium.

What if you could sell extra power from your EV back to the grid to make money when electricity is at a premium value and benefit the grid as a whole in the process?

I totally understand why you will probably stick with gas cars for a while. I traded my EVs for small, manual cars because I missed them.

Yeah, same with my MINI Coopers. Premium to get 118hp out of one of them haha.

I wouldn’t buy another Tesla at CURRENT prices, either, but to be fair, I wouldn’t buy anything else, either. The prices are stupid, now, for basically everything.

Lots of strawman and appeal to authority arguments, here, but you’re right. EVs are going to continue growing quickly for many use cases. They’re just plain better in many ways as daily transportation devices, and the cost compared to similar gas cars isn’t that far off in many cases, contrary to popular belief. Sure,…

There are three “MPG (or range) Indicators” on Teslas. One, that’s on the main screen, essentially just multiplies the current battery capacity times the EPA rated efficiency. So, there’s zero chance that it would drop 15 miles from driving half a mile... even if you floored it literally the whole time.

The tax credit doesn’t affect my point that there are several EVs that are cost competitive (not “1-2 price classes higher”) even before the tax credit. But yes, it does affect what the very cheapest EVs cost.

Irma, I believe, was the longest I’ve ever been without power after a Hurricane having lived here for 25+ years, and we lost power for 30-40 hours. Usually, it’s zero to single-digits hours. The bigger issue was in the run-up, everyone hoarding gas and none being available and lines being super long. I waited an hour…

Yes, it still qualifies for the $7500 federal tax credit, currently.

And this leads to cars being priced around 1-2 classes higher than an ICE car they should in theory be up against.

A very important note about the requirements, according to the Canoo reddit, is that they’re not required to be accomplished by a SINGLE vehicle. It can be, for instance, TWO vehicles, like the two Model Xs used for SpaceX Dragon launches.

The 200kw battery of the hummer products 6tons of CO2 to make.

no one is going to replace their full size truck with an accord or maverick. someone replacing their accord or maverick with a fully electric car charged only by green energy has less positive environmental impact than someone replacing their full size truck with a full size electric truck