...we’re talking way less than 1kW in a state where the majority of electricity is nuclear. As opposed to the DC fast chargers these people were lined up for that use 50-350kW. ICE vehicles waste more energy via losses than EVs use in total warming up on a cold morning.

I had assumed it was them trying to double their ad revenue.

I know Kia and Hyundai still currently offer it, BMW does, Ford did the with the Lightning, and Edition 1 Hummer EVs as well.

Which is another advantage to home charging, even if you park outside.  Your EV can use grid power to keep the pack temp above freezing and in cars with a heat pump and heat scavenging, you’ll get instant heat in the cabin as its using heat stored in the pack to augment interior climate.

The REAL perplexing thing is when car companies offer you the choice of free public charging for a set period of time, a certain kWh total, etc. or a free home charger and installation when you have the ability to home charge.  I don’t know if dealerships just aren’t explaining it well enough but the typical life of…

Car companies spend a lot of time on something 99% of their customers won’t use once. Just make a good EV, not this EQ drivel.

Well, every other slide show on here is a regurgitation of comments listing why your “yums” are “yucky”.

I miss Jalopnik before it became the Hater’s Ball of car websites.

Hummer EV owner here. Just did a 305 mile round trip, 75mph most of the way from VA to NC and back, some sections with a grade of 6% for miles. Ended up back home with 9% battery, so somewhere between 330 and 340 if I had run it to 0%. Lifetime efficiency is 1.7mi/kW over 6300 miles, mostly interstate and highway,…

But, man. If you can get a charger that delivers what it says, it’s magical. Especially if it charges by the minute instead of kW. $11 charge.  17%-80% in a Hummer EV, 135.6kWh delivered in 37 minutes for an average of 220kW over the entire session. Peaked at 344kW, stayed above 300 into 40%, was still close to 200kW…

I don’t think a single ID.4 owner in Asheville, NC has a home charger.  I was passing through on a Sunday trying to get enough charge to get to the next station and home and it was a steady stream of them “charging for the week” up to 100%.

People get all bent out of shape over it being “everything wrong with EVs” but that’s like getting mad at a Huracan for being everything wrong with cars. It’s a recreational/lifestyle vehicle. It isn’t meant to replace a Honda Civic or Corolla for economical transportation. I don’t think GM even planned on making…

Well, I live in the middle of rural nowhere so size isn’t really an issue.  And it drives way smaller with the 4 wheel steering.  I wanted an EV, a Taycan is a waste when I have a current E63 that’s paid for.  I could use a truck.  I wanted a convertible.  I like the tech, Supercruise, etc.  It’s basically everything…

I’d argue that the ones up and down I-95 where you’re in an unlit section of the Walmart parking lot between 18wheelers getting mobile serviced and a row of dumpsters to be worse.

I mean, there’s also the novelty of road tripping an EV right now (working under the assumption that the limited chargers you’ll come across work as advertised). I did it with my month old Hummer EV back in Sept. A 720mi trip to Orlando. Spent about 2 hours 15 minutes total charging. Two of the stops I just picked up…

Did they remove all the prices? They seemed like placeholders/mistakes with things like the windshield only being $1800, half the price of something like a Defender.

...the abysmal charging speeds of the Bolt and Leaf are almost certainly responsible for this statistic by themselves. If you’re road tripping a Bolt it can take 90 minutes to get from 20-80%...and 2 hours if you try to get into the 90s.  Compared to the fastest charging EVs like the EV6, Hummer Ev, Lucid, etc. which…

Also, the cooling loop doesn’t include the adapter.

And I hope owners like mini-briskets. The last I smoked was longer than this entire appliance.

It’s a shame that a Bolt and Hummer EV can both pull into a 350kW DC charging station at 20% and despite having a battery 3x the size of the Bolt’s, the Hummer will reach 80% in half the time.