Electric Vehicles? Towing? Hauling?

rk911 wrote:

Reisender wrote:
...Nope. Has nothing to do with continued good performance. Software updates provide improvements to varioys functions. Everything from braking to instrumentation, power curves, safety, navigation. Things other vehicles require you to buy a new model year for.

we keep our vehicles an average of 15-16 years and well past 100,000-miles before replacing them.

- during that time the instrumentation requires no updates but likely will need a brake job
- power stays pretty much the same during the life of our vehicles (one is 73-years old!). i step on the accelerator and off we go. yes, i keep MPG data. my '03 Wrangler is averaging the same MPG this year as it did when new. same applies to our '10 Liberty. my '46 Willys with the original flathead-4 and tranny still gets a respectable 12-mpg. no changes to the power plant and no depending on software updates.
- safety? is there something inherently unsafe about the EVs? if you're referring to the auto-braking, lane movement warnings, etc. then i have some concern about those features. i can see some drivers rationalizing..."i don't have to pay attention, the car will save me". until it doesn't.
- as for navigation, most of us managed to find our way around town, the state and the country using our brains and a road map.

some of the above are conveniences that many if us have come to appreciate and maybe even rely on while others seem to be of negligible value. but there's not a thing listed that individually or collectively will encourage or induce me to spend huge bucks for an EV.