A tale as old as trucking itself,

The GMC Hummer:

I remember test driving a Colt turbo. I would light up the front wheels pretty good. Didn’t seem horrible at the time.

What isn’t so funny is that Toyota seems genuinely interested in making at least some enthusiast-focused cars, but decided to work with Subaru and BMW on them instead of Mazda. They could have had a GR86/RX-7 pair and a GR Corolla/Speed3 pair. The RX Vision could have become a higher-end model to pair with the Supra.…

You want to embarrass owners of fine, exotic automobiles.

Uh, do you even want to be fast charging your EV all the time? I thought that was really bad for the battery? It’s probably better to L2 charge it overnight, isnt it?

Because when we have to charge a loaner, a used new arrival, and three Ioniq 5s off the truck, it’ll be really nice when they’re not all vying for the same level 2 charger.

Yes. I work at a Hyundai dealer that at this point has the chargers installed (went in over the winter) and we’re just waiting on the ground to thaw to get hooked up to the higher capacity electrical service. In addition to needing them in for Hyundai’s requirements, it also helps us on the lot - last week we needed…

with a multimeter. you dont need to put power through something to know if its working. itll measure correctly if its working.

We actually look at that frequently at our store, and between cost of install and everything else it would cost significantly more than we could recoup in Pennsylvania

Yeah, it was a major capacity issues as the building would not have been able to supply the power from what was available. Its legacy governmental with 1960s infrastructure (that wasn’t upgraded in the 2016 reno mostly because structural steel lead abatement issues). A lot of it would have been trenching conduit to…

There should be no expectation for customers to get free dealer charging anytime they please any more than they should expect to get free gas.

OK, I’ll bite: dealerships have acres of roof, right? In order to avoid the electricity cost shock, couldn’t a business smother their roof with solar panels, have them hooked to Powerwalls or something of that ilk for the energy storage and meet the juice requirement?

I was about to get about 30% of my non-LE/HD fleet electrified. That was a big deal a few years ago (2018). I got a few reimbursement grants for some charging capacity. It allowed me some charging if I rotated stock.

That said: I don’t expect to be able to fill my car with gas at the dealership. I suspect the trend for high capacity chargers at auto dealerships will be short lived.

Unless you’re literally rich as fuck, you’re not gonna get L3 charging at home. PERIOD.

Unlikely, unless you want L3 charging capability at home. L2 charging (208-240 volts, 40 amps) is probably more than enough for charging at home; which would be overnight charging most of the time. Level 2 will give you about 32 miles of range per hour of charge.

Elight years ago my BMW dealership put a few i3's into their loaner fleet. I ended up trying one out when my X3 was in for service. Long story short....I bought an i3. Still have it, love it, and will be replacing it with another EV (longer range). In the meantime my wife purchased a Toyota Rav4 Prime which is driven…

They aren’t actually capitalists. More like monopolists, or at least a mercantilist guild. When you drive down your local automile and you see Smith Ford next to Smith Subaru next to Smith BMW, do you really think there is competition? When the Guild excludes Tesla from entry into the market, is that capitalism?

Owned a 2010 Escalade Hybrid.  It was a great vehicle considering that it had 50% better mileage than a standard Escalade.