Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

The pandemic killed my car because I left it sitting for weeks. Which wasn't a big deal since it was almost twenty years old and still had a CD player.

Excited, I was expecting to pay like $20k for a really nice new car. And to my surprise, $20k is baseline average used car now, and new cars are at least twice as much.

do you guys not get European, Korean or Chinese EVs? or are thw prices of those inflated in Canada?

I think slate is targeting that niche with their truck

Yep. This is what's up.

When Nokia translates their brick phone design into an electric car, it'll sell like hot cakes.

Until then, we will see how many shitbox Toyota's we can keep running well past 300,000 miles.

The used car market comes a bit later after new car sales gets going. It's taken off here in the UK now, we can buy lots of EVs second hand. I never buy new cars.

Look into the used market. Lots of nice EVs for cheap because people think EV batteries degrade at the same rate as cell phone batteries. They don't. I got a 3 year old EV for under 25k.

I am very happy to never use local gas stations again. Charging at home is a huge convenience.

You might take a closer look at whether you can install a charger: a nice 50a charger is a great convenience, but you could still cover your needs with less.

• most EVs can schedule charging, so it’s only used overnight when nothing else is
• I saw a blog about a “smart” charger that only charged when sufficient capacity was available
• i saw a smart dryer adapter - use the 30a dryer outlet but only when the dryer isn’t running
• you could install a 20a/240v air conditioner circuit to cover most charging needs
• even a standard household outlet can keep up with average driving

Is your daily commute less than 40 miles? Then a level 1 charger could be enough. Especially if you can charge at work. Worried about the occasional longer trip? Look into plug-in hybrids. You can run your daily commute on the electric engine but the ICE engine is there for longer trips.

You likely don't need to upgrade service, for a L2 charger either. I have 100 amp service and my biggest hurdle was making room in my circuit breaker. I just had to combine some circuits. I had a few circuits that were just lights. Every bulb I have is LED, so there was no problem combining them. Then I added a $100 device that monitors my whole house usage and turns off the charger if there's a chance of tripping the main breaker. But that never happens because I have the charger set to 30 amp, which is plenty for me. I'd have to be running the dryer, oven, and charger at the same time for that device to kick in, but I have the car set to charge after 9pm when we never cook or do laundry. I could run it at 50amp with this strategy, but it's way more than I need for my 20 mile commute.

If you're genuinely interested but think you can't because of your home charging options, then check outthis video from Technology Connections. This video about electricians unnecessarily hooking up 50 amp lines for EV chargers might be useful too.

What kind of range u get in that bad boi

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You guys have been pretty good about this so far. Thank you and keep being awesome.

also tariffing materials to build cheaper EVS, and and tariffing ones form china too.