We’ve been driving the Niro EV for a few years now. Before that, we drove a Bolt, which replaced an i3 REx, which replaced an 500e (FIAT, not the Mercedes by Porsche. The Niro EV trumps them all. It’s about the same spec as the Bolt, but is much higher quality/less gimmicky.

Love the manual transmission conversions on these.

Most EV companies have an eight year warranty, largely due to a California requirement: https://www.myev.com/research/buyers-sellers-advice/evaluating-electric-vehicle-warranties

Outstanding.

Spot on. You see it in the mountains too (here’s looking at you Dinsmore store). That being said, many patrons there... pay in cash.

Those windows are too big and the beltline is too low, but yes.

It’s a good point, but since the OEMs are on the hook for the battery under warranty, they didn’t decide to open their vehicles up to V2G until they had the data it wouldn’t hit them in warranty claims.

In all fairness, that part of Mendocino is pretty far from pretty much anywhere. Makes sense that everything is $$$$ there. Plus, there’s a bit of near-monopoly.

You found a house in Marin or Sonoma? Hat tip.

Head to Wisconsin for markup-free EV6s and Ioniq5s.

16.5" wheels? Have fun finding tires.

4th: 1.5x more expensive to build an EV over a gasoline equivalent? Show your math, my friend.

1st gear: What about reduced outward visibility? Roof pillars have gotten thicker (because of rollover standards). Hoods have gotten higher (because of pedestrian crash standards and the bro culture). Beltlines are higher. Rear decks are higher. Sure, cameras are now mandatory, but does anyone track accidents caused…

This.

Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is nothing short of awesome. 

So you are saying LS swap the drivetrain and re-do the interior. Winning!

That’s the plan (of some), once you’ve had a chance to buy the stock of the private companies of course.

https://electrek.co/2016/02/25/mail-man-tesla-model-s/

Our mailvans drive 21 mile average daily route at 14 average mph with 500 stops. This is screaming out to be electric.

True (my father-in-law runs a local suburban post office). However, the needed infrastructure upgrades are not as severe as claimed (source: I have been working on EVs - specifically charging infrastructure - for 12+ years.) The USPS mail vans are like school buses - with known routes and travel patterns, lower power…