Bingo.

Back in the summer of 2021 the local Ford dealer and I were 2.5k apart from me walking out with a Mustang Mach E.  I walked and bought a Volvo XC40 Recharge.

I live in the area. Downtown Delray Beach has a main road called Atlantic Avenue that is full of restaurants and bars and usually VERY busy. These restaurants run on both sides of the tracks and are less than 50 ft from the line.

That darned FMM. LOL!

The Chevy Volt.

I’ve owned 5 GM Voltec plug-in vehicles and currently drive a Volvo BEV.

What about Polestar P2 and the Volvo XC40?

FYI, the car is located in Ft Myers, Florida, which took a direct hit from Hurricane Ian.

Thanks for pointing out that plastics are from oil, I understand that. Roughly 50% of oil companies’ profits are now from plastics. Unfortunately, as you all noted, that is completely unavoidable.

All good points, but I switched to EVs strictly because I don’t want to pay ANY money to oil companies.

Well, that’s like your opinion, man.

My Aunt had this car sans the turbo. It was a slug without the boost.

Fun fact about the G-wagen, I spoke with a salesman who said that all the "ballers" try to buy these and typically have the worst credit and end up getting C lenders and high repossession rates. Go figure!

There aren't cheap EVs because they don't make enough money to justify their existence yet.

I’m going to take a guess that you live in South Florida. Am I right?

In July of 2021 I leased a Volvo XC40 P8 Recharge (it is a BEV) with a 60k MSRP. At the time, Volvo offered a program that applied the entire 7500 tax credit off the MSRP of the vehicle. So the car was now 52,500. I then managed to get another 1,800 off of that. Long story short, I’m paying roughly $715 per month for…

The front and rear visibility out of this looks atrocious.

I am in the core demographics for a Tesla buyer: a well-paid tech guy.

My Cadillac CT6 had the rearview mirror video option.....SIX YEARS AGO in 2018!!!!!

I’ve got a friend who is a sports writer who focuses on the behind the scenes business of sport and he covered the Miami F1 race. He said everyone there was absolutely stinking rich. There were celebrities all over the place. None of them cared about the race. They were all there for business opportunities.