Yep, ridiculous recommendation. Both are good for certain use cases, though compromised, but Bolt is cheaper and it has CCS charging instead of Nissan’s completely moronic choice of sticking with Chademo plugs. It’s like when my co-worker drafted Aaron Hernandez for Fantasy Football after he was already in jail for…

For most people, you’d have to forget to charge several days in a row to actually have an issue in a current EV. There are legitimate issues/downsides for EV use, but forgetting to charge is nowhere near the top of the list.

there are a couple of things that can help mitigate the world’s lack of resources.

My install was $300. 100ft is a ridiculously high estimate for wiring distance for my region, so that greatly increases the length of wire and gauge. People should get their own quotes and assume there’s a wide variation in cost, so I don’t think a few hundred dollars nor 100ft distance should be considered standard.

Even if you dont get a charger that powerful or a car that can take it, no reason to under size the circuit for a future upgrade.

“Mustang Lightning” just to annoy Ford fans.

Great article, topic, writing, etc.

According to Twitter, the author was recently considering an i3, in fact.

If you’re looking for the actual cost of charging the EV for comparison to a gas vehicle’s fuel costs, then the fixed costs (like grid connection fee) are not part of what it costs to charge the EV, because you would pay the $20 whether you had an EV or not.

Yeah, I have solar so EVs are a no-brainer, BUT even without solar, their assumptions are trash so their conclusion is extremely misleading, at best.

The “primary source” doesn’t share their assumptions anymore because then everyone would know it’s BS. But when they DID share their assumptions, it was obvious nonsense. Electric rates way over national average, gas below current numbers, assuming it takes 4.8 minutes to plug and unplug your car AT HOME every day and…

It’s BS for most people because of their ridiculous assumptions (which they have now conveniently hidden), but certainly it’s true for some people whose price ratio for electric:gas is much higher than the national average.

The EV lovers don’t want real facts but thank you for presenting them.

base rate is BS since you never pay just that. You should take the whole bill and divide it by KWH. That’s your real electricity cost.

They used to report all their assumptions so it was possible to check them, but conveniently they don’t post them anymore.

I think the Lightning will quickly become ~40% of F-150 sales as people actually drive one and use it (and Ford ramps production). People who buy *new* F-150s probably disproportionately live in a single-family home where they could charge, and they’re used for fleets, and in those cases, it’s very, very good. Tons of…

Clearly, Ford is going to have to adjust the pricing of the Mach E if they want to sell a lot of them. Apples-to-apples, the Mach E is now $18k+ more expensive than a Model Y (Long Range, AWD versions of each). They can sell some at that gap, and it has some pros (fit/finish), but also some substantial cons (charge…

The Model Y is the 6th highest selling vehicle in the US for 2022. It’s selling pretty well.

The Bolt has been undercutting anything Telsa makes for the past 5 years.

Electric and quirky? You can’t match the i3, really. Maybe an iMiev or smart or something, but those don’t fit the other requirements.