Yes it is liberating to plug in at the house. I plug in when I get home like every 4th day. My round trip is like 60 miles to work. It takes 5 seconds to plug in. It’s ready to go in the morning! I have 0 degradation on my battery at 40K miles. I can almost drive to Atlanta on a full charge so don’t get why people are like oh no I need 500 miles or more of range. Ridiculous. Have you ever heard of one pedal driving and regen? I might need to use my brakes 1 percent of my time on the road. So they will last well over 200,000 miles. If you have to replace your battery at or over 200,000 miles it would be way less money than what you spent on gas during that same time frame. Plus batteries are getting cheaper and cheaper while gas and oil is getting more and more expensive. When I drive in the mountains I can use regen and charge my battery going downhill without ever having to touch my brake pedal! Having an ICE car in the mountains destroys your brakes. But whatever. Be closed minded if you want. I have no hate on ICE, I love my fiesta st with a modded turbocharger putting out over 300HP. But I’m not so closed minded to see that EV is the future and it is an awesome way to drive. Oh and on super long road trips, get an air bnb. Never had an issue with a host not letting me charge my car at the house over night and ready to go the next day.
A 500+ mile Lucid Air Grand Touring has an MSRP of $109,900 at the moment. Not aware of any other 500+ mile EVs currently on sale at the moment, but no thanks. Also, if they’re anything like Tesla, have fun spending 2 grand to fix a door handle (and Lord knows what other mundane items are marked up to the moon… That’s the equivalent of 10 brake jobs.
And you really think regen braking is going to help much with how aggressively some people drive. Hah!
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