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Experience with Electric Vehicles?

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Brought home a 2025 EV last month and love it.  My previous car was almost 20 years old and woefully under powered - this one is tourqey as hell, has great acceleration, and so far dirt cheap to operate.

 

With the Lease+Insurance costing me significantly less than my employers monthly mileage expense allowance this is a car that's paying me.

 

325 mi range on a full charge - 265 @ 80% charge

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MB, Tesla, Electrify America, and Charge Point locations all over

 

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On 8/18/2025 at 1:17 PM, HaricotVert said:

Brought home a 2025 EV last month and love it.  My previous car was almost 20 years old and woefully under powered - this one is tourqey as hell, has great acceleration, and so far dirt cheap to operate.

 

With the Lease+Insurance costing me significantly less than my employers monthly mileage expense allowance this is a car that's paying me.

 

325 mi range on a full charge - 265 @ 80% charge

top trim package

MB, Tesla, Electrify America, and Charge Point locations all over

 

Very nice!  Congrats!

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10 hours ago, JPPT1974 said:

Really think that it would be both a pro and a con. As it could help the environment. But also wonder over in gas mileage there is a difference with an ordinary car to that over in an electric vehicle.

Most EVs are in the 90+ e-MPG meaning some measurement house somewhere compares the EV to a similar ICE model and works out how much is costs to charge (on average) versus fill up as a point of comparison.

Talking long term, in the hundreds of thousands of miles?  No clue.  Some early signs are that EV batteries maintain 80% charge over 400k miles.  So there's that.  

The challenge and charm of an ICE vehicle is being able to park it under a tree, get your jack stands out and tinker with your engine.  There's just not that same level of complexity in an EV.  I saw someone estimate there are 200 or so moving parts in an EV, and 2000 in an ICE vehicle.  I'm not a part counter so I can't really speak to that.

I think that the EV is more the future than any type of combustion engine.  Those will still be around in specific purposes, but for most people - an EV will be the superior option in terms of efficiency.  I say that as someone who loves stupid horsepower numbers out of turbo 4 bangers and inline 6s...  I am one of those tinkers when I can be.

A bigger issue for EVs is going to be the ownership versus lease.  Right now, there are INSANE leases on EVs, which is great, but what do you have at the end of that lease?  Nada, maybe some equity if you're lucky.  Where as I'm almost done paying for my car, and plan to keep it until the wheels fall off (or my son wrecks it when he starts to drive).  Will EV makers do the smartphone thing and build in planned obsolesce?  Stop updating software?  I love the tech in EVs, and I think getting more cars and trucks off the road is a good thing.  But I am still just a little concerned.  Capitalism has gotten far too extractive.

 

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