I was with my niece and her MIL in the Boston, MA Seaport district yesterday afternoon and we took an Uber back. The guy showed up with an immaculate EV6. As an owner of a MYLR, I was interested in his take on his car, which he has only had a few months. He uses the car 5 or 6 days a week, with some days lasting as long as 12 hours.
Comparing notes:
Because of tax credits in the US & Massachusetts, I paid almost $8K less than he paid. I am unsure of the different trim levels for the EV6; the seats were quite comfortable and the only thing I noticed missing was a glass roof. The car seems to be significantly smaller than the MYLR on the inside, the ride appeared to be much less smooth. The driver has 2 screens and a lot more buttons; the layout seems similar to most of the new cars on the road, closer to the design of a smaller SUV car of the past decade. It is a very nice vehicle the 3 of us agree is more comfortable and stylish than most cars available today.
He hasn’t had any issues with his car. We compared ranges with our cars and these sound similar. He has greater range anxiety than I do, and we discovered that this was likely due to my access to the ease of the Tesla network as well as his lack of charging options in his area. Notable: he said that he can charge his car for free as an Uber driver, but has to drive for about 10 minutes to get there. He lives in an apartment and has no way to charge at home.
The driver and I agreed: for us, there is no going back to ICE cars. MIL, a retired engineer from Toyota, was noticeably quiet about this.
EV6 driver here.
Never had range issues. I’ve put on 6k in 3 months. We’ve made a few road trips.
I’m also never at a charger more than 10 minutes. We plug in and get the fuck out, because that’s how it works when you have 800v charging. I’ve never wished for the slow tesla charging (lol 400v at 150 kw) in my road trips, because I had 350 kw at 800v the entire trip every single time I was outside my home area.
It’s also significantly more comfortable in the front seats than a tesla model X (dad has one). I can’t say for the back seats, because I haven’t sit in the back of either. The front seats are excessively roomy if you’re not over 6’5". Above that depend on if it’s torso or leg that your height is mostly concentrated.
There’s no phantom breaking that plagues every tesla model. It doesn’t exist. So you’re not going to randomly get rear ended because Musk couldn’t tell the difference between a speed limit sign an the road number.
You also have an openable sunroof on higher trims, something tesla hasn’t figured out yet despite being a thing for literal generations.
You got the green one? Very nice.
Yeah. I love it in the green. I wash it weekly and put ceramic wax on it a month back, so you know it sparkles.
Not sure how often I need to redo the wax, but probably going to in like 3 or 4 weeks