1st Gear: Isn’t a battery health indicator something that the manufacturer should include in the car, and allow the user to access via the car’s built-in display? My Nissan Leaf had a rudimentary version of this five years ago. Apple products (and presumably other phones and laptops, which also use lithium battery…

$36K is an interesting number, because if you adjust it for inflation it’s what the top of the line Laredo cost in ‘87. The base was equivalent to around $25K.

at least Jeep doesn’t charge extra for a passenger seat and sun visor like they did in the past.

Having seen a stripper 4-door Wrangler Sport in person I’m not sure I’d call $36K reasonable but sure Bronco is even pricier.

from both sides... GM planning on building a buncha crazy inefficient EV’s that most of us cant afford while trying to kill off the bolt is blatant idiocy....

1st gear: “Almost Nobody But Tesla Is Keen For Tough Emission Laws”

With you all the way. No more struggling to get out in narrow parking spots. No more accidentally dinging a stranger’s door. No more moral quandaries about dinging a stranger’s door. Probably less dings on your own doors.

They are sweet, but the vehicle has to be minivan-sized for them to work (or, at least have a massive cargo space behind the second seat.

Sliding doors ala on a minivan are the best doors, esp when you have kids

This looks like one of those surveys, you get an electric car with double the normal range but have to keep this large butt plug in, or you get a Camaro that always gets a good parking spot but causes you to grow a mullet instantly 

Also, while we’re on the subject, can we talk for a second about how completely unnecessary a 900-mile EV is? Why not use a battery a third of the size to give us something much more affordable with a still-useful 300-mile range? Hauling around a battery you barely even use would just be wasteful.

Now you can recharge your car and yourself =)

Hey, butt plugs have been known to get a lot of things started. Don’t knock it until you tried it.

I have a simple way to solve this

I think we have different ideas of what not a lot of money means

I live in Colorado and found the ride in both to be good enough. I sold the 3 for the Y because I hit my head getting in and out of the 3 a good bit, I had no complaints about the ride.  A friend’s wife didn’t like the ride in her Y so we swapped the suspension, it was a good bit of work and (in my opinion) not worth…

And then there’s the whole average vs. median transaction price thing. There are a fair number of very expensive cars being sold, and those push up average (arithmetic mean) values so much as to make them useless for defining what commonly is understood as “average” (meaning typical).

Not to mention Tesla’s preference to do running changes to improve its manufacturing and assembly costs. They iterate much quicker than legacy OEMs, driving costs down quicker and improving margins through the model’s lifecycle.

I’ve owned a Model 3 and a Model Y, now I own a ‘22 Chevy Bolt.

At $38,990, the base Model 3 sedan now costs $8,700 less than the average amount paid for a car or truck in the US.