Automobile Quiz

HornHuskerDad said:
LC, I hope you get great service from your new vehicle and enjoy it thoroughly.

It's not for me. My two Infinitis are in great condition (my wife's 2021 Q50 has only 18000 miles; my 2012 G-37 convertible has 102,00, but I've taken great care of it). I expect to own them as long as I'm around.
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I’ve never owned an Infinity but they are beautiful. Glad you enjoy your :hookem:
 
LC, trust me, you should have listened to all the clever EV critics on the internet.

You’ll get 12 miles to the charge and then it will catch fire. So annoying. And there are no chargers anywhere. None! If you can find one it will take four days to juice up and then the power grid will collapse. Within two years your battery pack will fail and the replacement will run you $40,000. Idoit.

Kidding aside... can you use the Tesla Supercharger network? I don’t know if Kia has the NACS plug or adapter yet. Did it come with a charger you can use at home?
 
Dionysus said:
LC, trust me, you should have listened to all the clever EV critics on the internet.

You’ll get 12 miles to the charge and then it will catch fire. So annoying. And there are no chargers anywhere. None! If you can find one it will take four days to juice up and then the power grid will collapse. Within two years your battery pack will fail and the replacement will run you $40,000. Idoit.

Kidding aside... can you use the Tesla Supercharger network? I don’t know if Kia has the NACS plug or adapter yet. Did it come with a charger you can use at home?
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Yeah I’ve heard some of the crazy arguments lol. I’ve never been opposed to EV, just didn’t know enough about them. It did come with a home charger and with an adopter, unless I misunderstood, can use on Tesla network. Honestly, I’m still a bit naive on all that stuff. I’ll probably be calling you for tips. My company has a charging station, right outside my office actually, that I can use plus they will partially pay for home station if I decide to do that. We plan on driving in town and will use my truck on longer trips. That’s the plan anyway, but I’m looking forward to getting her on the road some.
 
Great that your company has a charger and is willing to help with the home station! That’s a nice benefit.

I like charging at home because I wake up to a “full tank” every day. Tesla recommends keeping the charge between 20% and 80% to preserve battery life, so I just set the app to stop charging at 80% for local driving. If we're doing a road trip I’ll charge it to 100% for that.

When I map a destination on the screen it will show me all the charging stations along the route, and what the remaining battery charge is expected to be when I reach any of those points. That helps a lot with range concerns.
 
LonghornCatholic said:
Yeah I’ve heard some of the crazy arguments lol. I’ve never been opposed to EV, just didn’t know enough about them. It did come with a home charger and with an adopter, unless I misunderstood, can use on Tesla network. Honestly, I’m still a bit naive on all that stuff. I’ll probably be calling you for tips. My company has a charging station, right outside my office actually, that I can use plus they will partially pay for home station if I decide to do that. We plan on driving in town and will use my truck on longer trips. That’s the plan anyway, but I’m looking forward to getting her on the road some.
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EV’s are great as a town car, doing your daily trips and what not. The problem comes when you are making long trips with multiple stops during the day that don’t allow time for stopping and charging. This can bite during family events, or an event-filled weekend that requires you to travel to Austin and do a lot of event hopping, like at a family reunion, funeral, wedding etc.
 
Hey LC good luck with your Grid Hog, just kidding ,,, sorta. Nah I can see (he says reluctantly) a usage for EV’s when short in town hops are ones only driving. I just do not see as a sole vehicle and I do fear the drain on the grid if Biden and company get their way in their total conversion obsession. Anyone who wants one good for them, just don’t require me to subsidize them.
 
I am not anti EV, but I am anti over paying for a vehicle that I can't use for everything I need it for. I drive about 30,000 miles a year and take long trips. For example I went up to glacier national park two years ago and drove over 5,000 miles. Not many charging stations in Montana and Wyoming. Plus when I'm in a car for 12 hours I don't want my drive extended by an hour every 350 miles.

I also view electric vehicles similar to solar panels. When it becomes affordable enough to offset the higher cost with gas savings, I'll probably do it. Just like solar. All the salesmen tell me how great it is, but when they tell me it will cost $80k to completely offset my electric bill I laugh at them because It'll never pay for itself.

My wife has a hybrid provided by her job and I love it. It's small and we took hers on our last vacation where we got almost 700 miles to a 15 gallon tank. Freaking awesome. For her next vehicle replacement cycle, the job will be replacing it with a fully electric vehicle and install a charging station at our house. So instead of criticizing electric without ever actually driving one, I can see what its all about for free. :smile1: On a side note, they better give us an electric bill offset of some sort.
 
Why do you hate to break that to me? He posted not to ask him to help subsidize. I jokingly said, ok I won’t…and I haven’t lol. I never said anything about what the government is or isn’t doing :idk:
 
EV’s will become fancy golf carts that folks drive within a 10-20 mile radius of their home. Hopefully costs come down to $20k or so for an economy-size 4 seater. When traveling outside of the radius, you can either rent a car or own a car that you drive a few times per month for 20 years or longer.
 
mchammer said:
EV’s will become fancy golf carts that folks drive within a 10-20 mile radius of their home.
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I accidentally wandered outside my radius a few times (Austin, Lexington, Waco) and somehow managed to make it back home. I was living dangerously though, don't recommend it.
 
Dionysus said:
I accidentally wandered outside my radius a few times (Austin, Lexington, Waco) and somehow managed to make it back home. I was living dangerously though, don't recommend it.
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Try it with 2-3 young kids.
 
Dionysus said:
How would that be different? It’s just traveling in a car.
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Heavier for one, which includes all of the extra gear, so less range. Second, stopping at rest stops in the summer with the AC on full blast as your kids need to get out to run around. Third, other unplanned trips not considered in your travel plan. Fourth, trying to find a charger that is not being used and then waiting 2 hours because you got a slow one while your kids are tired and cranky.
 
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mchammer said:
Heavier for one, which includes all of the extra gear, so less range. Second, stopping at rest stops in the summer with the AC on full blast as your kids need to get out to run around. Third, other unplanned trips not considered in your travel plan. Fourth, trying to find a charger that is not being used and then waiting 2 hours because you got a slow one while your kids are tired and cranky.
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No U R
 
Dionysus said:
No U R
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You will notice that by owning an EV you have restricted your lifestyle, such as not going to an event because it would require too much time away from home when you consider the charging time, etc. For example, you can only go to a Texas home game by leaving Saturday morning and then returning directly after the game but you can’t meet your return time when you factor in the charge time in Austin. In other words, your schedule doesn’t allow it because as soon as you get home, you need to drive to IAH to pickup your son or daughter at the airport. So that is 2 charges - one in Austin and one at home before you go to the airport. This trip only works if you leave on Friday night and charge the car in Austin on Saturday morning before the game but you have a date with your wife on Friday night that you can’t reschedule. Even if you could cancel the Friday night event, it has the added cost of getting a hotel room.
 
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LonghornCatholic said:
Assuming you’re in a one car family. EV drivers are somehow finding a way to make it work :idk:
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They do. Studies have shown that a high % of miles driven is within an x mile radius from home. It’s basically used as a car to run errands.
 
LonghornCatholic said:
Assuming you’re in a one car family. EV drivers are somehow finding a way to make it work :idk:
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I have 4 cars. I would buy a low cost EV for my kids to drive in HS and at home from college. As an adult, I had to leave early in the morning to go to Hutto for a funeral, then go to Killeen for the burial, and then back to Austin for the reception. Then back to Houston after the reception. How does this work if I have an EV? It doesn’t.
 
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mchammer said:
You will notice that by owning an EV you have restricted your lifestyle, such as not going to an event because it would require too much time away from home when you consider the charging time, etc. For example, you can only go to a Texas home game by leaving Saturday morning and then returning directly after the game but you can’t meet your return time when you factor in the charge time in Austin. In other words, your schedule doesn’t allow it because as soon as you get home, you need to drive to IAH to pickup your son or daughter at the airport. So that is 2 charges - one in Austin and one at home before you go to the airport. This trip only works if you leave on Friday night and charge the car in Austin on Saturday morning before the game but you have a date with your wife on Friday night that you can’t reschedule. Even if you could cancel the Friday night event, it has the added cost of getting a hotel room.
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mchammer said:
Save it for when you are waiting at the charging station and have nothing to do. :hammertime:
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Wifey and I went to our first charging station stop. Twelve minutes. From all the horror stories I thought we would be there 17 days, grotesquely disfigured from an explosion, kids would be kidnapped, crash the Texas ERCOT grid, and get herpes from the battery electrolytes (but I’m disfigured so what do I care). By the time we went in and got water and coffee, charging completed :idk:.
 
I told the people at Tolbert's yesterday I had seen a true sign of the Apocalypse. Pulled into Sam's to graze on the buffet and parking was full. While touring the parking lot, what do I see? SIX charging stations. Now none had a vehicle (farmers will be the last to switch & that will be just before me), but SAM'S? Really?

The end times are upon us.
 
Sabre,

As a native Texan who has been around the State, where is this? I'm guessing it's not Sam's Club. Outside of the EV chargers, I'm interested.
 
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