Mojave2021
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- California
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- 21 Gladiator
If we can leverage the EVs to send power back to the grid - like the Ford Lightning can with the right items installed, I see more potential/sustainability benefits to the EVs. This would mean incentivizing those who don’t need their EV’s power daily to send that extra power back.
I would still like to see if we can come up with an e fuel that will let the ICE cars continue on in an environmentally friendly fashion. Disposing of all
of these ICE cars can’t be good for the environment either. It’s got to be better for the environment to find a way to reuse the ICE cars vs building millions of new EVs. I believe Porsche is working on these e fuels. I’ve got a 77 Trans Am with an LS3 which I hope can use one of these e fuels one day and not eventually get banned from the road.
Our family has a mix of environmentally friendly and unfriendly vehicles. My wife has a 2019 Tesla Model 3 that averages 200 miles of range per charge. We have an EV charger in our garage. The Tesla has been a fine car so far with few issues (starter battery and 1 window regulator replaced). The design of the car is quite bland. Exterior design is boring and the interior IMHO is horrible with the center iPad screen with controls buried in it. You can’t even aim the air vents either. I prefer gauges directly in front of me. While it accelerates quickly it for some reason is not a very engaging driving experience. Maybe the upcoming EVs with fake exhausts and fake shifting will be more exciting, maybe not. We don’t take the Tesla on road trips as I don’t want to worry about charging it (even in CA). If there are chargers all over the place like gas stations some day and the time to charge is less than 10 minutes I may change my mind on this.
My daily driver is the Gladiator and I work 10 miles away. It’s our road trip vehicle. I also have the previously mentioned 77 Trans Am LS3 which is much more environmentally friendly than it was with the original Pontiac 400 engine and passes the every other year CA smog test easily. But I’m a bit worried about it eventually losing value given it’s an ICE engine and may eventually be banned. So far luckily the values still seem to be going up but wondering if we will see a peak soon. I imagine folks will be doing EV conversions more heavily than LS swaps soon.
For my son we bought him a Mazda 3 hatchback We wanted something reliable that gets decent gas mileage for him and can fit his drum set. We did not consider a used EV for him because we were concerned about him eventually living in an apartment
that may not have an available charger. I still think EVs are a huge hassle to own if you don’t own a house with a charger. We were also worried about that EV battery replacement. It’s tough to tell right now what the real
life expectancy will be on them without more years of evidence. With proper maintenance the Mazda 4 cylinder should last a long time.
I would still like to see if we can come up with an e fuel that will let the ICE cars continue on in an environmentally friendly fashion. Disposing of all
of these ICE cars can’t be good for the environment either. It’s got to be better for the environment to find a way to reuse the ICE cars vs building millions of new EVs. I believe Porsche is working on these e fuels. I’ve got a 77 Trans Am with an LS3 which I hope can use one of these e fuels one day and not eventually get banned from the road.
Our family has a mix of environmentally friendly and unfriendly vehicles. My wife has a 2019 Tesla Model 3 that averages 200 miles of range per charge. We have an EV charger in our garage. The Tesla has been a fine car so far with few issues (starter battery and 1 window regulator replaced). The design of the car is quite bland. Exterior design is boring and the interior IMHO is horrible with the center iPad screen with controls buried in it. You can’t even aim the air vents either. I prefer gauges directly in front of me. While it accelerates quickly it for some reason is not a very engaging driving experience. Maybe the upcoming EVs with fake exhausts and fake shifting will be more exciting, maybe not. We don’t take the Tesla on road trips as I don’t want to worry about charging it (even in CA). If there are chargers all over the place like gas stations some day and the time to charge is less than 10 minutes I may change my mind on this.
My daily driver is the Gladiator and I work 10 miles away. It’s our road trip vehicle. I also have the previously mentioned 77 Trans Am LS3 which is much more environmentally friendly than it was with the original Pontiac 400 engine and passes the every other year CA smog test easily. But I’m a bit worried about it eventually losing value given it’s an ICE engine and may eventually be banned. So far luckily the values still seem to be going up but wondering if we will see a peak soon. I imagine folks will be doing EV conversions more heavily than LS swaps soon.
For my son we bought him a Mazda 3 hatchback We wanted something reliable that gets decent gas mileage for him and can fit his drum set. We did not consider a used EV for him because we were concerned about him eventually living in an apartment
that may not have an available charger. I still think EVs are a huge hassle to own if you don’t own a house with a charger. We were also worried about that EV battery replacement. It’s tough to tell right now what the real
life expectancy will be on them without more years of evidence. With proper maintenance the Mazda 4 cylinder should last a long time.
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