PlugShare is a good resource to check if a hotel or site will have an EV charger. It will also show the public infrastructure, as will some cars (for example, Tesla) right on the infotainment screen. It’s kind of difficult in modern times to run out of electricity unless one purposely disobeys the car’s automatic…

I can see the business case for tracking depreciation on a large scale if you have tens of thousands of units. But it seems foolish for any private consumer to count on a known depreciating asset to not have fluctuations whether they be large or small, up or down.

Without looking into it either, I would guess that the expense is in large part due to lost earnings due to Tesla parts being in short supply (waiting lists) after somebody does crash. Tesla is very vertically integrated so for the most part, you’d have to go directly through them to get parts. Where for many OEMs,…

I mapped it out and did the math, somebody feel free to check me.

However, hitting the 6,200 mile limit will be trickier in a Bolt with reduced range.

Tesla’s quarterly sales this year aren’t necessarily that much more than Q4 last year (likely an industry wide issue as you eluded to with the high interest rates), which kind of shows that the tax credit isn’t the whole picture. 2018 is when Tesla lost the $7500 tax credit, and 2019 is when it lost the $3750. There…

Earlier this year the news was that Tesla Model Y was the #1 best selling vehicle model in the world, and Model 3 was somewhere around #5. The Y starts at $44k (before tax credit, around $37k after) and the 3 starts at $39k ($32k after). They are massively outselling Model S and X which start at $71k and $80k.

What kind of maintenance do you think EVs have? I’m entering my 6th New England winter in my EV and my maintenance has included tires, wiper blades, washer fluid, and cabin air filters. It’s not like there is any oil to change, belts to squeak, and even brake pads wear way slower since you generally exclusively use…

There are indeed so many more EVs now than 3 years ago. Tesla alone makes about 1 new car every 17 seconds now, when 3 years ago they were only making 1 per minute. And that’s just one automaker

We’re certainly behind Norway (who is at 90%+), but you can thank bizarre American politics and rampant deliberate misinformation for that.

After a relatively hot last couple of years, EV sales have cooled off. A lot of American buyers don’t want them

MotorTrend seems to be generally pro-EV.

Awesome, sounds like he really gets it, I like this quote on that article:

I’m guessing they took the name Charger for the EV pun rather than naming it Challenger, if they were going to be getting rid of both the old models

I was under the impression that both the current Charger and Challenger were going away and being replaced by this one Charger, back to 2 doors like it used to be

It’s also not known what body style the new car will be. Recently leaked factory photos show a coupe body, with the source confirming that it was the new Charger.

Not in the same tax year, but spread across two tax years, the theoretical married couple could get both full credits. It’s just that as a single person at this income, they can’t take advantage of the full tax credit since they had a lower liability in the first place

Fuel for a vehicle should be considered part of the vehicle’s expense even if it isn’t part of the loan. So if you are spending $100/mo on gas and $400/mo on a car loan, versus $0/mo on gas and $500/mo on a car loan, it comes out to the same monthly expense.

Should’ve asked him what he drives now! Cool guy, he’s in just about everything. Had no idea he’s been an environmentalist since before I was even born

In the car they already have. I meant specifically that the worker would get back the full $7,500 from their New EV tax credit if they had a higher household income to have at least $7500 in tax liability. The article author here was pointing out that at this salary, the (single) worker would only have $4,733 in tax…