MegaWonder wrote:
John & Angela wrote:
Very cool. The technology is in its infancy but will improve as time goes on. We recently replaced one of our internal combustion cars to a full Electric. It is really hard to go back to driving anything with a tail pipe after you have driven an electric. Quiet, amazing performance and other than windshield washer fluid, very little maintenance. Literally drive back and forth to work for pennies a day now. The driving tips he gave were right on the money and aggressive driving gobbles up kilowatts quick.
Love that built in power supply on that truck. It will make power outages a lot less of a
crisis.
Thanks for posting.
We added a 100% electric vehicle to our household as well. Definitely the most cost effective vehicle we have ever had. Our particular EV is not as advanced in technology as the latest EVs out there and does have its short commings such as cold weather range/charging capacity, and no quick charge feature...but with said, it is our 100 mile round trip daily commuter. The savings of no gas, no expensive maintance (no oil/filter changes, fuel filters, transmission flushes, no timing belts, no egr or o2 sensors,exhaust, cat converter concerns, etc. Etc.) This alone helps put diesel fuel in our truck. :) LOL 1 year 24k miles. Only maint so far has been rotating tires, inspect brakes (virtually no brake wear due to re-generator braking) and windshield wiper fluid.
Think the batteries are getting better and are getting less expensive every year. Will have to see how the VIA vehicles make out in few years.
Ours can only do Level 2 charging too so you can't be in a rush. Having said that, a busy day for Angelas car including commute is about 55 KM. Less than half of her range. So I can't see needing to charge up other than at home most of the time. She seems to burn through 3 to 5 Kilowatts per day and occasionally 15 or 16 if she goes to the neighbouring town for a costco trip (110 KM round trip or so). (We use a Kill-a-watt meter on our level one charger at home) Kinda fun to see what its costing us. We pay around 11 cents per kilowatt hour here.
