Lol, yeah. The plug and breaker aren’t the reason it’s sized for 15 amps. It’s the wire. And the wire is the expensive part (and harder to deal with since it’s stiffer) why people install 15 amp circuits in the first place instead of 20 amps.

Why is that even relevant? Not enough EV’s are even made, or realistically could be made right now, to be 100% EV. You are worrying about pointless things.

So why are you using today’s infrastructure for the next few years sales projections? Do you think infrastructure is going to remain stagnant? Or do you think it’s more likely that it’ll continue to grow?

Are there any other options left?  Doesn’t sound much different than non-EV people.

If we were even at 20% new cars as EV sales, public charging would be an absolute nightmare.

Why is your one example proof of that?

There’s three different following lengths (low, medium, high). Having to change between low and medium depending on speed is just annoying. It works, but it’s annoying.

Some of it is just driving a style. My wife loves the adaptive cruise control on her Subaru. I hate it. It follows too closely at low speeds, and follows super far at high speeds (I’m talking seconds of spacing, not physical distance exactly). Therefor I always feel it slows down way too early when I intend on passing…

Is there anything that tells you the doors don’t open and you can’t use the AC during the update? I can totally sympathize that a person might not know what happens when their car is updating, since “updating a car” is still a relatively new thing that no one knows about.

My dad had a ‘00 or ‘01 Accord coupe when I was a kid. The thing was a total disappointment. An AC system that couldn’t keep up on warm summer days with four people in the car. The doors felt hollow and the thing was loud. The metal was thin and it picked up dings and paint chips super easily. My dad was so happy when…

Saab.  Sure, some were better than others.  Some were more Saab-like than others.  But none of them were bad.

I went from a car with keyless access and push-to-start to a car with a traditional key/fob.  I didn’t think it was going to be a big deal.  Now that it’s been years, it’s fine, but if I’m paying new car money, it better have keyless access.

Thanks for proving they’ve always been a bit too expensive to be “everyman”?

Let’s wait until we see pricing before we start calling them “everman’s” anything. The Tacoma and 4Runner pricing have always been a bit too high to really call them something like that. And let’s not forget the dealer markups that will hang around for a couple years.

It’s funny, because GM was basically the first that started to hybrid-ize “normal” vehicles. Remember the hybrid Silverado, Tahoe and Malibu? Those things came out in like 2004, 20 fuckin’ years ago.

Whoa, I misread your original comment.  My mistake.

Cost parity isn’t really here though, simply because there aren’t EV offerings in every segment yet. If you want a full EV version of a Corolla, what is there? If you want a full EV version of a RAV4, what is there? If you want a full EV version of a Prius, what is there? Right now, the vast majority of EVs seem to…

I owned a house before we got married, she did not. She had student loans, I did not. She has a pension, I have self-directed retirement accounts. Deciding where to put the money, how to divy it up, how it affects our taxes, how it affected her student loan payments, and all that took a while. Creating a budget that…

Nah, I get it. My wife and I have combined finances, but for the ~8 years we dated, we had separate finances. Neither system is perfect, and they can both work. Going from separate to joint took a lot of communication, openness, and learning about each other. It also required a lot more direct discussion on financial…

I feel like the Tahoe (and Suburban) have increased in price considerably starting with the GMT900 or immediately before that release.