Thinking about getting a EV. Just curious why you got yours. The reasons I can think of are:
- Environmentally friendly 🌵
- Cheaper Fuel ⚡️
- They are cool/trendy 😎
- Lower maintenance 🔧
Is there anything surprising that you found out after you bought it?
Thinking about getting a EV. Just curious why you got yours. The reasons I can think of are:
Is there anything surprising that you found out after you bought it?
2 - i can precondition my ice volvo with an app when it’s in a garage or a parking lot or anywhere else
3 - unless you’re driving farther than 100 miles or so. which people do do.
I hope you mean a parking garage for #2, and not your own garage
you realize you can heat and cool a car without running the engine, right?
How do you cool an ICE car without running the engine? Does your Volvo turn an AC compressor with a standalone electric motor?
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Ah, so you have the Volvo plug in hybrid EV? Looks like Volvo says the cooling lasts for 2-3 minutes. Not only is this a hybrid EV, but 2-3 minutes of operation? Come on dude.
https://accessories.volvocars.com/en-us/V60/Accessories/Document/VCC-499511/2018
If you have a full on ICE car and think you can do preconditioning, you don’t know how AC works.
Which EV do you road trip in? I have an EV and a ICE car and I find that road tripping in them is comparable. Maybe your EV charges slower?
just last week we went on a 500-mile road trip to the mountains and spent a grand total of 3 minutes tending to the needs of the car with zero worries about when and whether we were gonna get anywhere. it cost us probably $100 more than taking the ev, which in my mind is money well spent to have that piece of mind.
while driving up a mountain road, we saw an i4 getting winched up onto a flatbed tow truck.
So which EV do you have?