Recent content by atx_ev

Thats not how risk works. That is like saying power door locks and windows are not safe and shouldnt be used because sometimes they fail when a car gets immersed so the people die Risk calculations are constantly done and there is often an element of risk in everything You can eat...

i need a truck form factor (dont care about towing). Prefer a 5.5 ft bed. 5 ft is ok. Under about 73 inches wide under 200 inches long EV 4wd 4 door 2 rows of seats under 30K The new ford EV platform could be it.

The 200 is ones authorized to work on EV high voltage systems. More of the 4000 will be able to do basic car stuff

i want self driving but in a van type vehicle that I can take the family on road trips. When Im driving around town I dont need self driving as the trips are short. My ideal road trip car is a minivan style car with tesla self driving and EREV. Until then I want the cheapest EV truck possible.

but arent flat towable and cant be used as a pickup truck. I do agree that the SUV option doesnt make nearly as much sense as the truck option. Id probably rather hook up a trailer to an equinox than take the shell off the SUV to turn it into the truck for infrequent hauling events. However if...

blank slate for me.

some advertisement somewhere slate wrote 200+ repair shops, so they for sure know the network for 4000 is not the number.

My son is 13 and my youngest daughter is 10. I love the idea of them only being able to take 1 passenger as per the law in texas for under 18 drivers (unlike my oldest who for sure breaks that law on a regular basis). For myself I want a truck that doesnt take up so much room in the garage and...

My wife has a mercedes gle 450e. It gets 60 miles on a charge. With an l2 charger she will never use gas. We switch to gas mode once a month or so to exercise the ice and use up some of the gas. this is how I know 150 miles is fine for me. I drive even less than my wife. The one thing I would...

2015 honda odyssey, leaking valves due to eco. I ended up buying a device that tricks the computer into thinking the temp is too cold to go into eco mode.

one interesting thing for fleet sales is theft (and of course maintenance). When you give your guys a credit card, they will use it for personal fill ups. With EV charging at the home office you avoid this.

The number of people saying it doesnt have a radio or power windows so it should be 20K is ridiculous a typical radio and speakers might be $200 and the power windows might be $100.

It wouldnt be the dealer, it would be GM financial. They set the residual value to be ridiculously high. It was a 35K residual and the cost of the car after all stacked incentives should have been 32K. some dealers would refund you the 3K, but they would still end up positive because GM is...

a st a standard shaped truck, a cargo van that can be converted into a camper van. Even a minivan. self driving is best on long road trips. Stopping to charge isnt that big of a deal if you have a camper van.

this is me. I did try to lease a chevy equinox ev before the credit expired, but the dealers were so scammy. A lease has cap cost money factor residual period That is it. From those you 100% can calculate the monthly payment. On the chevy website the calculation showed that I can get under...