This isn’t necessarily the right take for an enthusiast.

Not sure where your idea that 40% of houses can’t have a level 2 charger. They would have to be very old houses which pre-date electric water heaters, electric ovens and electric dryers. I would expect there would be a considerable overlap with houses that have street parking as well.

Really? No one asked for it?

Manchin is an energy company shill who’s whored his seat out to them for decades. He sits comfortable in the knowledge that his family has benefitted directly from his legislative practices of enabling environmentally-destructive business practices, and that he can’t be replaced easily.

Fair. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

My issue is not with Rivian, but rather with the gosh darn awful look of the “winner”. 

That was the plan from the get go, they submitted the bid that way.

Postman Pat

Flaming swords? What are you, British?

B’Gosh, I wonder if they’ll ever uncover some palm greasing that helped Oshkosh Defense win the contract.

The design is a total mess. It looks like a homemade prop for a low budget student film.

I can’t believe the outgoing vans have been in service as long as they have.

I miss the old sliding door mail jeeps with…

Agreed!

Yeah, the station we charged at both times when we first got the car (before we had the home charger installed) has 16 stalls and both times there only maybe a half dozen cars there. It’s in a shopping plaza with lots of stores and restaurants. We just plugged in and walked over to get a frozen yogurt while we waited.…

I know a lot of anecdotal replies but here’s another: We’ve had an Tesla since the sale/lowered price in January and we’ve used a charger 5 times (2 of those were between when we took delivery and had the home charger installed). You’re right that we don’t really use chargers unless we are going on long trips. We did…

Some owners that live in apartments, condos, etc. where they don’t have a say in whether their home has an EV charger NEED to have ample access to them as well.

Daily driving? sure... longer range/road trip especially if going off of interstates? you’re gonna need all of that shit.

But you don’t need to use a public charger to use an EV in the same way that you need a public gas pump to use a gas car.

Tesla premium connectivity. ~$100 per year. A whole year. It amazes me that there are Tesla owners out there that have spent between $40K and up to $100K or even more for the plaid and consider this a rip-off.

For those rare occasions that I need iHeart radio I just stream it with bluetooth from my phone. Can control play/pause and volume from my steering wheel.

While not every place has room to add devoted charging stations in (you know property owners would love a means to get more rent), places with decent saturation reduce the problem. I worked with someone who was in an apartment and had an EV, they were able to charge everywhere they would go (office, stripmall with…

Exactly, the biggest difference is that an EV doesn’t need to make deadhead trips to get more power, even if you don’t have charging at home, you will see chargers in office parks, supermarkets, etc. Stop to get your coffee in the morning, you probably can get a good chunk of power if you are at a more modern charger. 

Unless you are staying at a motel that has free to patrons level II chargers. Then overnight is fine.