Many now have a heat pump, similar to the AC but it can reverse the refrigerant flow and either cool the air coming in the car, expelling hot air by the radiator or heat the air coming into the car and blow cold air outside.

Older EV mostly had electric heaters, cheap and simply just like a plug in heater at home. But the can take 3-5 times more power.

Our Ioniq 5 mainly uses the heat pump, except for when running defrost then it uses both. Once the car has warmed up it can take just 0.8 - 1 kw to maintain the temperature. So with a 100% charge and 74kwh of battery capacity you can assume it would run over 70 hours.

Outside Tacoma WA I think it’s .089 cents, so it would cost us about $2.67 for my 100 mile commute, or about the same as 1/2 gallon of gas.

For an ICE to be less expensive it would need to either get over 200mpg or gas would need to cost about 62 cents per gallon if you had a 25mpg car.

It looks like it doesn’t actually replace the cv joint since their geared hub doesn’t rotate the front wheels couldn’t turn.

We have an EV but I don’t think they should be forced on anyone either some people are will get scared and push back. Let the market decide the EV transition is already going faster than they predicted with almost 10% of all cars in 2023 will be EV. A few years ago they were hoping to see 30% by 2030 and sounds like they could hit that by 2027.

People are just tired of the constant pricing games from big oil and like the convenience of never stopping at a gas station. People will eventually move to an EV without restrictions on ICEs.

Not really. A lot of people are buying good EVs just not the hummer. EV sales are now 9% of all new cars and sales have been going up each quarter this year, not down. It’s expected over 1 million will be sold in the US in 2023 going higher in 2024 as GM has several new models coming out.

Plus the upcoming transition to NACS will make charging easier and will likely cause a large increase of EV sales in 2025-2026.

I thought the hummver ev was more like a novelty anyway rather than a serious car. Not surprised few people are buying them.

Incorrect title, probably anti EV spam.

Article says resellers can’t make money flipping them anymore.

" The Hummer EV was reselling for $100k over sticker price for most of 2022

Aftermarket sellers are now struggling to find buyers over MSRP

The last 5 Hummer EV auctions on Bring A Trailer have not met reserve price"

Yes the 12V doesn’t charge the HV battery, it’s the other way around with the HV battery charging the 12V battery like an alternator does. A 12V jumper box would not be capable of overcharging a 400V battery.

After disconnecting the battery and the 12V battery being dead it likely needed time to calibrate the BMS to come up with the correct SOC so it showed blank. And usually you only disconnect the HV battery when your servicing the HV system or the car has been in an accident.

Just some kid walking around joy riding cars he can never afford at a wholesale dealer auction. May loose his auction privilege for doing that too. I use to go to these auctions weekly when I worked at a dealer and cars end there for many reasons like repossessions, trade in’s that one dealer got cheap another dealer may pay more for (including sending cars to other states where they may sell for a lot more).

Sounds like us, I drive 50 miles each way to Seattle and back and we put about 23k miles on ours since we bought it in January. It had 12k on it we we bought and there are even better good deals now on them. We still have the full 10 year 100k mile warranty on the battery, modules and drive system and in California I think you get even a longer warranty.

We had a PHEV for a little while and while EV mode was fun it was certainly underpowered with not enough range and left us wanting more. So we gave up on a PHEV and just went full EV.

On our Ioniq 5 the heater seems to take around 0.8kw once the car is warmed up to maintain the temperature, so assuming you arrive with a 60% charge you could run it for about 50 hours. And that’s with it set on 74F, if you kept it at about 66-68F and got in your sleeping bags it would use less power.

Many cars are like that now EV or not. Maybe wait for GMs new EVs like the equniox and blazer I think they both have a full selection of buttons.

Many people say insurance is about the same as their last ICE, that how ours is not much difference than anything else. You have to get a quote on your own policy to know the actually cost anything else is just random guessing.

Registration can be more depending on the state but it’s often in place of gas taxes to make it fair for other drivers. If not EVs would be driving on the roads without paying their fair share of gas tax.

Charging at home is always cheapest, when your paying to fast charge on a public charger that company has to make money on charging and equipment.

If you feel EVs deprecate so much faster then of course buy a used one, let someone else take the loss.

We have driven about 23k miles this year, we would have spent over $4500 in gas in 11 months. According to the power bill our EV charging usually accounts for $70-80 of energy use for 2 months.

I think for a while they will keep cutting production to try and inflate the prices like usuall. Then eventually they will get so scared of EVs gas prices will fall to 10-20 year lows to try to slow / stop EV sales along with a bunch of garbage articles about how people driving EVs are paying more then those using gas.

Either buy a Tesla or get a different car are about the only options then.

There are are many new factories being built in the US and the market won’t soon be all Chinese. But of course some companies who have been building cars for 100+ years would rather not change and spend money to update their factories to EVs.

I think the Ioniq 5 interior is mostly recycled or sustainable, not sure about he ID4. But we have an Ioniq 5 and it seems totally acceptable, not falling apart and no rattles. I herd the ID4 software was terrible and never considered one, although it may have been improved since then. Having a large wagon/hatchback was good for us since we have had mainly had cars like a wrx wagon, forester and Niro.

Plugs / outlets are always the weak point of a home charger, they just aren’t make to pull that much load for hours every day. Ours is hardwired even though it’s only 40A for just that reason.

Also on voltage I think when the new charging standards are finalized it will include charging upto 277V. I believe that’s 2 lugs on a 480V 3 phase power and will allow large businesses and industrial locations to easily add EV charging on their existing 3 phase power supplies. Running 48A on 277V will give 13.2kw.