You're on an Internet forum what do you expect. Most people don't practice what they preach in real life anyways, even less on some random internet forum.
Op, it's fine. Doing a gift was weird though. You seem to have better charging etiquette than the vast majority of others, but next time don't write about it.
That's because it's not rapidly progressing, the revolution happened decades ago in the early 90's, since then it's just been evolving. But marketing will try and make us think otherwise.
I agree.
My wife and I bought a new car a few years ago. We went to the dealership and test drove it. We were happy with it. We left and slept on it. The following week we went back and carried through the purchase. I negotiated and came to a final price of $35k. I told my wife get to the...
What is considered a "solid trade in value"?
Your best bet is to take the emotion out of it go through the numbers and figure it out, include all operating cost such as insurance, etc.
Always assume vehicles will depreciate a lot in your analysis. Also, fyi, consider saving up and paying...
They'll lower your range by about 10%, at least that's what happened to me on my EV. Nevertheless, they came in handy twice, ran it on a flat till I got home and repaired it myself.
I don't know. Some people get all butthurt if you charge off their dime, perhaps that's understandable in some situations, maybe not in others. The real problem is the fast charging infrastructure is still a disaster, as experienced by the op.
Unfortunately it's live and learn.
When these things came out I remember the popular theme was that EVs will be more reliable do to less moving parts. But it really depends on the overall quality and assembly from the maker, moving parts or not.
Sure they do. Prior to 2009 recession, annual depreciation was about 17%. Six years afterwards two year old vehicles were averaging 52% declines from MSRP, this was due to longer loan terms and incentives. This is no different then that with all the new incentives on new electric vehicles...
Um no, the Mache is depreciation just like other vehicles, the car is nothing special. It's tracking similar depreciation of SUVs over ten years ago for example... remove the tax incentives.
Exactly, the depreciation curve varies from time to time and vehicle to vehicle but most car buyers will experience similar curves (usually not linear) the total lost on depreciation for a given time period will be the area under your curve from purchase price to resale price. When the curve...
You signed the sales contact at the agreed price. There's nothing Ford will do. If you're making payments, you're still required to make payments regardless of vehicle value.
I agree. My wife and I enjoy our road trips. I just couldn't see myself enjoying a road trip with the stress from the charging unknowns, and I'm a tech guy. Also I wouldn't want to be held captive on where we could eat or sleep depending on dcfc location. Last there's just no way I want to spend...
There was too much hype a few years ago and everyone jumping over each other to get an EV. I've always liked EVs but wasn't thrilled at the dcfc infrastructure so I settled on plugin hyrids, no regrets. Zero issues, 150k miles driven with two of them.
i have 150k miles on my ev vehicle, no issues. I have 180k miles on my ice vehicle, no issues. I disregard any ev proponent with the assumption because it's an ev it's somehow less vulnerable to problems. Maker and build quality matters.
I was I big EV enthusiast until a couple years ago. Road trip charging with all the busted or slow chargers started to kill my interest. The novelty has worn too.