that came from Bing’s first result. In another post I took the median income of May 2020 vs May 2023 and the median hourly wage was lagging 3% behind inflation. Double check the story, they are likely reporting off MEAN numbers or average which are skewed by the highest earners beating inflation.

I got my numbers from Bing. However...

Yes, if I was going to get an EV, I would lease.  But I like to pay off a car and drive it for as long as possible without the pain of having any payments.  And the fact that technology is still evolving doesn’t fit with this ideal as well.

Nah, I was looking at the gas for the drive with my older car, the stop at a hotel (600 miles is a bit too far for comfort for me with my back) and eating out extra times on the trip.   Now when I took a family of 5, I drove instead of flew, but when plane tickets are as low as $50 each way, it doens’t make sense to…

Labor statistics look at percentiles of pay. What I am describing is a long term problem, but has become dramatically worse recently.

Actually, I don’t do that drive. Cheap airline and cheap seats exist.

Nah, the entire Southern US.   All those stories about Cotton fields are a damn lie.  It’s nothing but Slash Pines for about 1000 miles down here.

Flying is stupid cheap. I’ve scored $100-200 round trip tickets. It’s cheaper to fly and rent a car.

Yes.  Tomorrow, I have options.  Today, the options are PHEVs.   And I’ve seen the BS that Rivian owners are dealing with Telsa owners.  Let’s see how well this works in Practice with something  like  a Mach-E before signing for one.

Yep. My wife drives a 17 year old vehicle. It has had a series of problems in the last year. 10 years ago, I would have dumped it and gotten a new vehicle to drive for another 15 years. But now... my only option is to fix it, because fixing it is something like a single payment on a replacement new vehicle.

Honestly, Musk is holding back America in EV adoption.

Eventually, the vast majority of it will. It’s in LEO. That’s deep inside of Earth’s gravity well. Nearly everything that goes up in that well comes down. Eventually. (I guess if it hit an angle to skip, it could break off some small pieces that could get enough energy to escape the gravity well so thus the term…

You must be new here too to not realize the joke about the unkillable Altima is a long standing one.   It used to be the Pontiac Sunfire, but when GM stopped production, it became the Altima.  When Nissan stops production, the Altimas will be replaced with something else.  My bet is on a Korean product.  Perhaps Sante…

Well, I never doubted it can return to earth. I just wondered where it would land and in how many pieces.

My issue with parallel parking is always the same.

Beat me to it. I was thinking “is it really the bird’s fault, or the homicidal asshole working the slingshot?”

The head line says KILL the Altima.   An impossible task.  Stop making them.. Nissan should be able to do that, but they might have to invest in piano cases.

The problem isn’t price inflation, it’s wage inflation. But,this isn’t reported correctly.

Kill the Altima?

Jumping in late. BEV vs PHEV is all about application. I have two vehicles and I can justify BEV for one and PHEV for the other.