I cover about 20k per year in my Prius; at current TN fuel tax rates that means I’m paying about $110 per year to use the roads. A $150 tax would represent a bump but considering that even if my car were no better than fair at converting kilowatts to miles, it’d still work out about even.
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Get ready for the highway tax to discover EVs. You’re going to see it pop up somewhere, in the electric bill or, more likely, the registration fees. I think the fairest way to implement it would be to have a prorated tax based on the car’s odometer reading.
My son got permission from his landlord to install an EV charger on his house only with the caveat that when he moves, the charger stays with the house.
Fun to imagine but extremely difficult in practice. This country hasn’t done massive, nationwide infrastructure projects since the 70s.
Where to put chargers: everywhere.
Not a Canadian Pinto. A Canadian Maverick.
“...isn’t immediately evident” is indeed the case. This is what you get when you build a car whose styling was provided by Ms. Baumgartner’s third grade art class. It’s car-shaped. That’s it.
Ah yes, the German Granada. All the charm of the Granada with all the weight of the Granada propelled by all the power of the Pinto. Built in a place called Genk.
I dare not. I’m really saving up for a tractor which I want much, much more.
There’s the fallacy. You NEVER need it. You only want it, which is a very different thing.
Don’t let higher odo readings put you off. Mine had about 170K when I bought it, has over 230K now. Runs fine. The horror stories of $4000+ battery replacement costs may indeed be true but they’re uncommon, and you can find new batts on the aftermarket with excellent reputations for less than half that price. The…
Considering the Prius’ existence as a model in the US only goes back 20 years, this is a remarkable achievement.
An even older, less complex BMW would be far more appealing to me. The “ultimate driving machine” is a tad on the silly side when you spend the vast majority of your time driving in a nothing-like-ultimate way.
No way, no how.
OMG.
I remember one year the writers at Road & Track insisted on calling the bigass rear wing on that year’s Countach the Hyundai Wing, because its purchase price was the same as that of a brand-new bottom tier (as if there were any other tier) Hyundai Excel. As over-the-top as the Countach was, the Hyundai Wing strived…
The guy gushed at an irrational level about this card table fitted with a mechanism that shuffled and dealt a pack of cards, randomizing in such a way that he insisted it was the “first computer made available at the consumer level,” which was an especially rich vein of baloney. And then he carted the thing off to a…
Though I have an inexplicable and enduring love for Citroen, the DS brand should die. Even they can’t decide what DS stands for. And unfortunately Citroen itself is really only a shadow of its former self so if it were to finally close down maybe they could actually pack some earth down on that restless corpse and…
I’ve seen people buy warehouses, but not the actual warehouses - just the contents. Like “Storage Wars” on How In The Hell Is This Arts & Entertainment Channel. For some godforsaken reason, I only ever see the same flippin episode with the self-dealing card table. I only ever see the show when I rent a cabin in the…
It’s interesting as hell and I’d love to take it for a spin, and considering the fact that I drive like my own now-dead grandmother I could even see myself owning this thing.