I’m sure it has been said before and will be said by others again but this is why I purchased my second used Tesla. I had a reservation for a Cadillac Lyriq but I have had 0 issues in 4 years charging the car at Superchargers and they are all over the place so purchased another used Tesla.

I just drove around the Portland area after the snow storm and saw 2 crashes during a 10 mile round trip for shopping.  Over 1/2 of my co-workers have been in an accident in the last 5 years when you count hitting deer, stationary objects, and other cars.  I know for a fact that none of them were reported to the…

We just drove from Oregon to LA in a Tesla. No wait at any charging station traveling on I-5 between SF and LA and every charging station worked perfectly. There were places with 50+ superchargers and 7 vehicles charging. We travelled on a Friday and Saturday. There are all kinds of headlines about waits to charge but…

Cars I’ve owned most recently:

Including all the fees and taxes I pay $0.15 per kWh at my house where I charge my EV 95%+ of the time. My EV has averaged 3.57 miles per kWh over the last 50,000 miles. 100 miles costs me $4.20 in electricity. Maintenance/repair costs over those 50,000 miles: 1 set of tires, some windshield wiper fluid, 6 or so pairs…

Totally anecdotal but at 90,000 miles and a little over 8 years old our Model S has had a single issue: a broke driver’s side door handle. Besides windshield wipers, cabin air filter and tires I have literally done no other maintenance. It feels weird after wrenching on my own gas powered rigs over the last 36 years.…

As someone that lives in the Portland area I’m not a real fan of this amnesty. As it is there is only ONE full time traffic enforcement officer in the city. Speeding and reckless driving has noticeably increased since 2020.  If there are no consequences sadly folks just don’t follow the laws which is why we have to…

Who would have thought that the Plaid would be 1/2 the price of the next closest priced car. A $130,000 or so bargain car?

Maybe next Lexus can simulate horse sounds and smells to bring back the good old days when we had horse drawn buggies instead of automobiles! 

My sister’s Prius needed a new battery at about 150,000. The battery in my 2014 Tesla is still in great shape at 90,000 but Tesla did a very good job with thermal on the battery packs. The cars with passively cooled lithium ion (Nissan Leaf) did not do well.

If you are looking for an ethical company with a CEO that is a humanitarian and not a hard core conservative looking for tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and corporations you may have a tough time buying anything but locally produced farm products and overpriced outdoor sportswear. Nobody running a large company is…

It is not just EVs.  All new cars are expensive.  In August of this year the average price of a new car was $48,000.  It was about $43,000 a year ago.  https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-vehicle-prices-set-record-in-july-2022-according-to-kelley-blue-book-as-inventory-improves-year-over-year-and-luxury-share-…

I’ve got reservations for the Lyriq and Blazer EV. Looks like the Blazer will be under $55k in many configurations.  I’ll probably go with the Chevy since the range is similar and the size identical.

1979 VW Rabbit diesel. Had to wire a radiator fan switch into the dash because temp sensor failed so often. Endless glow plug failures. Alternator bracket broke, I got very good at replacing head gaskets quickly. Great fuel economy... when it ran.

You must live in someplace like the Bay Area. Engineers in the rest of the country don’t make $300,000 unless they are a VP or own the company. I’ve been an engineer for 30+ years in a state adjoining California. I’m sure I could have made more in the Bay Area but there are far too many people and the housing prices…

All those tires referenced in the PDF are speed rated for 75mph.

“Sgt. Ryan Coats, with Deer Park Police, said “it was kind of a ‘he said, she said’ thing.”” Except the with video evidence isn’t is more like... Evidence?

I’ve owned a Nissan Leaf and currently have a Tesla.  I like the Lyriq price and size but unless the non-Tesla fast charging improves dramatically I’ll be buying another Tesla.  The Supercharger system makes road trips extremely easy and worry free.

Even if you charged 100% of the time at Tesla Superchargers and paid the $0.25 per kWh you would only be spending about $0.076 per mile to drive (assuming around 3.25 mi/kWh which is worse than I average in my EV). At $5 per gallon and 25 mpg you are paying $0.2 per mile which is almost 3X the cost of an EV. So while…

There are between 10,000 and 12,000 car crashes in Portland Oregon every year. If there were only 392 car crashes in the last 10 months across the entire USA where a car was using level 2 driver assistance with the last 30 seconds, that sounds like a very safe system. As you note, these numbers mean nothing unless we…