Don’t you guys have pretty good solar incentives in California? My solar panel system (6.7KW) priced at about $25k will be completely paid for by the feds and state in about 4 more years. We have pretty good incentives up here in Washington as long as you buy panels and inverter(s) made in-state. I got the usual 30%…

Right, I understand why it’s a good thing. All I’m saying is that it’s a bit strange that this car is exactly $37.5k. I’m a bit paranoid I guess that GM is pocketing some of that $7500. Perhaps they could have sold the car for $33k and still turned a profit, but they said, “hey, people will pay more since they get…

Actually what’s interesting about what you said, stop and go traffic is the ideal situation for an EV as far as efficiency goes. The slower you go, the higher your range will be. It’s not like a gas powered car where you get crappy mileage in the city. If I did all of my EV driving in heavy Seattle traffic, I’d easily…

No charging at work. I could get a much higher rate of charging if I installed a 240v “L2" charger, but I got an EV partially for economic reasons. I don’t want to pay $500 for the charger plus another $600 for professional install in the garage (that’s what I was quoted to mount the charger about three feet from the…

Nothing wrong with your line of thought, I’m supremely prepared as well for most things.

Yes, of course they are trying to find ways to make the cars cheaper, which is why I mentioned that in my original post. The $7500 was meant to bridge the gap and I’m all for that. But when manufacturers like Tesla and others are using that credit in their advertisement of their EV’s, I think that shows that they are…

Very little, but I live in an area (Seattle) powered by hydroelectric, so it’s cheap at $0.08/kWh (one rate, no off-peak stuff here). We drive our i3 about 800-1000/mi per month, averaging 3.9mi/kWh. So the math says at most it’s $20/mo.

I disagree. Of course most will be fitted from the factory with fast charging, but I don’t think the car is rendered pointless without it. 230 miles would allow me to take the family to visit my parents, about 80 miles each way and not have to worry about range like I do now with my current i3. We’ll come home with…

I’m a current EV driver, and I can’t wait for this $7500 federal tax credit to go away. I truly believe that it’s making manufacturers lazy about trying to release a truly affordable EV. $38k for an electrified Honda Fit is just too much. I know the federal credit is there to help get electric cars on the road while…

In most cases it's only "smaller" because of the added AWD system which uses up some space. Add AWD to a Mazda 3 5-door and you'll end up with something with the same amount of space as the CX-3.

No, but crossovers aren’t to blame for that. Big trucks are.

Don't they lynch you for driving a foreign electric car in Texas?

Thought I remembered reading that the 2017's were making the items from the performance pack standard, so they were dropping the option.

There's actually been evidence of this for a little while. I was on VW's website a month or so ago building my imaginary GTI and mo matter what I did, I couldn't get it to show me a 2017 2-door, only the 2016. I thought the website just hadn't been updated yet, but I guess there was a reason. Too bad, just purely from…

I knew what I was getting into, but I could never have known how it would make me feel inside. I thought, how would I react if I had to shoot someone? How will I react if I see a friend get “blown up” I thought about those kind of things. I never imagined that having a somewhat indirect hand in it all would have that…

I knew exactly what was going on, I joined in 2003, of course I knew what was happening. I knew that I would be indirectly involved, what I didn’t know is how it would make me feel. I had always heard parents talking about how amazing it was the first time they saw their child, but I didn’t really “get it” until it…

I always heard that you guys actually have more fighters than the Air Force, while we had more cargo planes. The only Navy planes I ever dealt with really were P-3's, so I can’t say for sure. Any truth to that?

Thanks for the advice. Never used that feature before, but I might for a couple of these replies.

Yeah I understand, we all had a job to do, some of us were more effected than others unfortunately. I’ve got a few friends who were “TAC-P” basically Air Force attached to Army combat units and they each have varying degrees of “messed up” going on in their heads. One lives local to me, the others are spread across…

You know, it’s not logical to feel guilt for something you didn’t really have a direct hand in, but I’ll tell you from personal experience, it’s real and it’s a shitty feeling.