We had this happen last week but the guy pulled up the app to show us the app and you could see the cars location. It was real.

Texas- free nights. There are some fees so prob 2 cents. Daytime is 13 cents.

I’ve seen lines like that at superchargers 30 deep meanwhile I’ve been in and out at an EA in 20 minutes 2 miles away. It depends on so much and holiday weekends are ALWAYS bad. Honestly if we actually traveled on a holiday we’d just rent something until there are enough chargers.

Yeah I got all that. He’ll get over the range anxiety soon. He could have bought out a lease and gotten the tax credit- there are ways around that. The Kia dealer had that plan all laid out if we wanted to do it. It’s not their money so what do they care? It makes them more competitive to make it easy to do.

You can get the tax credit with a lease. The ev6 is a really nice car. We need a new car this week or it’s the one we’d get and they’re sold out right now. We drive the high end trim and it was super smooth- not even the same ballpark as the teeth rattling Y. Not a clue how OP thinks it’s rougher. He’s only had an EV for a few months- it takes longer than that to get over range anxiety. Prob took me a whole year to not charge to 80% at every highway stop (plenty of them, always one open, never had a charging issue).

22 id4- no loss so far. Never really do- when it was crazy cold once last winter I lost about 20 miles but I had the heater blasting in the garage before I left so it was not the model of efficient driving on that trip. I had enough range for what I needed so I didn’t care. It has to be well below freezing for me to notice loss.

Those options aren’t really that practical. Parking a caprice is absurd. Classic wagons are still huge. Subaru really screwed up not making their EV an outback copy. I’d be all over that. But that is much smaller than a classic wagon. We’re currently driving a Corolla rental and it is unusable for us as a daily car. Back seat is tiny, trunk is huge. I need passenger space. SUVs have bigger backseats, at least ours do. Also taller space for packing cargo. I’ll never own a sedan again- CUV, SUV, whatever an outback is- those are all much better organized.

We also went shopping for EVs this week. I agree with most of what was said. The ariya is pretty fast but I suspect you didn’t have it in sport mode. Our ariya was totaled last week so we’re looking to replace it. The lack of incentives has us looking elsewhere (we got the tax credit for ours). We loved the ev6 but the final price is way more than what we can get a mach e for, even ignoring the $3750 credit. Sucks bc we would love one. The Kia dealer was also everything I hate about car dealers. We had a wonderful experience at VW, Nissan, and ford. I drive an id4 as my daily and I love it but we can’t own two of the same thing.

In my neighborhood I’ve seen one ioniq and 6 ID4s. Ever, I’ve just seen that one ioniq in the wild, and dozens of ID4s. Apparently it depends where you live.