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Gas is so cheap in the US....
Right, I know it is still cheaper than it should be given the environmental cost. I wish I had any other way to get to work but the infrastructure simply doesn’t exist where I am.
If your average daily drive is 40 miles or less you can use a regular wall outlet to charge an EV.
Any more than that and you'll need a bigger home charger, but you can still charge at home where it's cheap unless you're driving over 100 miles or so every day.
I've been kicking myself for months for not grabbing an EV when I had to look for a vehicle recently, but got stuck with a gas guzzler cuz I need to be able to tow shit... I fucking hate my car.
I actually have an L2 charger on a 40A line…my main barrier is vehicle size. I’m a tiny car guy. I refuse to buy an SUV or crossover. I’d love an ID.2 or ID.GTI but Americans like their cars as big as their meals — yuge. So VW will almost certainly never sell an EV smaller than the ID.4 here, used to have one and it barely fit in my garage. Not that I’m tied to VW, I’ve just owned a lot of them.
The only actual subcompact EVs I’ve seen for sale have been the Leaf, Niro, whatever that tiny BMW abomination is called, and the Bolt.
So I guess my barrier is that I’m picky. And I wanted a GTI for years and years and just finally got one…would have bought an electric version in a heartbeat instead.
I guess there’s also the e-golf, but there are not a ton of them in the US and given their age idk how good of range they’d have at this point.
I traded in my Miata for a 2017 Bolt last year and I love the stupid little thing. By American standards it's a small car, but it has a good deal of space inside. But I'll also say that it's small enough that it's fun to take downtown where parking gets hairy.
So, if you haven't tried one yet, I'd recommend at least giving the Bolt a shot.
I suppose there’s nothing stopping me from test driving one…