Kia ev6 has been going strong. The only downside for me is the first gen doesn't have wireless carplay.
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Rivians are everywhere here in LA, but they seem to only be for the rich.
I’m keeping an eye on Aptera, a solar powered vehicle based in San Diego that may start delivering this year.
Aptera has been saying this since 2017.
Personally, I like the Mach E, but I have some fundamental complaints about EVs right now, specifically, they looks like ICE cars. The propulsion method has changed, but the packaging has not updated to fit the new capabilities. Electric cars now are like jets in the 1950's, we need to move past old frames and ideas and work to make the vehicle fit the motor better. Also, EVs are too damn big, and thats because charging infrastructure is a fragmented PITA right now. We wouldn't need 250 mile+ capable vehicles if you could count on having a fast charger at most highway exits.
I’ve been following them for a few years and they’ve been very transparent about their progress. They’re building their production-intent validation vehicles now, so unless there are any major flaws they can’t work out, shipping this year or next seems possible. The world needs a vehicle that costs nothing to operate — at least in places with a lot of sun like California.
I've had one on pre-order for 10 years at this point. Tell me about how close we are.
Well, I don't know if you saw the news, but Aptera'a first vehicle rolled off their low volume production line yesterday!
Maybe they will make deliveries this year...
Lucky enough to have a 2025 Peugeot E-2008 GT, and it's a great car honestly.
I quite like the design though if you're into the smaller and sleeker cars it may not be for you.
I got a 2021 Chevy Bolt. Insanely cheap, has worked great. We have the highest trim model, but you can get lower ones with less features.
In the peak of used car nonsense post covid, we traded a 2012 Nissan Sentra (no trim level) with 80k miles for the 2021 Bolt with less than 3k miles. After tax incentives, I think the difference was $2,500. It didn't make sense at the time and still doesn't. But people were really afraid of electric cars then.
I don't recall special EV fear at that time. I recall insanely cheap gas prices in the summer of 2020 and a drastic reduction in commute demand. Once the excess oil was depleted and production hadn't come back up to speed by like summer of 2021, gas prices shot up. I'm deep in a sub/urban mix, so that affects my experience, I'm sure. While all cars had their market value increase at that point, used EVs and Hybrids had an additional 50%+ markup, comparatively. I was shopping for them and ended up passing on the idea due to excess price. I vaguely remember prices being about $12k for ~2010 Priuses and $5k for 1st gen Leafs with deteoriated 50-mile batteries. I don't recall Volt/Bolt prices and was already disinterested in Teslas.
I think it was peak buyers remorse. People wanted electric but didn't fully know the downsides. For example, our Bolt had a battery that said like 230 miles. I'm in the Midwest... Cold highway driving makes that like 140 or so, no joke. It's just not a road trip car.
We knew that going in, so it's a great second car. But I think some people realized that no road trip ability plus hour long charging stops were just not going to cut it.
Legit in the dead of winter it was like 60/40 driving vs charging time. Charging for an hour got you like 90 minutes of driving.
Very happy with a KIA EV6.
I just bought a vauxhall/opel frontera.
Its not the fastest or sleekest out there but its cheap, got lots of physical buttons instead of everything deep in menus on a touch screen. Its got manual seats, its even got a metal key to start the "engine". The screens dont do too much either, they are quoted as saying they went for a sort of digital detox with this car. I am very happy with it personally.
Its a mid sized SUV and its perfect for me and my small family.
Take a look
Been seeing a bunch of ionics around my semi rural area with very much not the infrastructure already existing.
MG ZS EV. Nothing comparable in value for the price. Yes it's Chinese. No (other) downsides after a few years but software that greets us with the wrong date (but shows the correct one).