Ford, GM, and Ram Will Finally Implement The J2807 Towing Standard

My son and his wife love their 2024 Telluride, bought 4 weeks before my EV9 purchase and already with almost the same amount of miles with the higher gas prices here, they are already thinking of replacing Karina's Honda Fit with an EV for Alex to use to commute into the city for his Amazon job. He does drive the Honda Fit, but coming up on 250,000 miles and lots starting to require repairs. So Alex is looking at their EV options.

A good example of how much cheaper charging at home is versus gasoline: I've since driven my Navigator 4801 miles, averaging 16.6mpg and have spent a total of $927.59 (averaging $3.20gal).  ~1/4 of the miles and 124% of the cost.  I know these aren't the same "class" or size of vehicle, but that's a very significant amount of savings. By the time I drive 19,204 miles (for simple math's sake I just multiplied 4801 by 4), I will spend roughly $3710 to your $757. That's 4.9 times more expensive for me than you.  This also goes to show how quickly one can recoup money when buying an EV and the installation cost alone is paid for in one year.  Just for fun I want to compare your EV9 to a Telluride AWD at 20mpg (the rated combined MPG). At 20mpg and $3.20/gal and 19,000 miles of driving, that's $3040. That's still a very significant amount of money in one year.  Granted, for somebody like myself who isn't driving nearly 20k miles a year, the savings wouldn't pile on nearly as quick but, we all still get the point across. Also, my electricity rates are a little higher at 11-13c/Kw.   

Very cool that Hyundai is nailing it for playing in the dirt. A decent competitor to the Mache Ralley edition. Hyundai IONIQ 5 XRT Named Best U.S.-Built Sports Vehicle of the Year by American Cars And Racing - Hyundai Newsroom

I think it has more to do with the vendor and their software improvements. Tesla used to have huge variance between what they estimated miles of a battery pack was and what you actually got and as they improved the software and had more real-world driving data, they tweaked the software to be far more accurate. Kia has had their quarterly updates since we got the EV9 and it was pretty consistent on the old numbers. Just had a major quarterly update and this time it clearly stated that the software that manages the battery pack and predicts the range on a charge was getting more accurate due to miles driven by owners. As such, I think one of two things has happened, either A) they improved the estimation of range based on driving style or B) like Tesla and others, they are allowing less reserve battery pack and more actual driving from the battery pack based on efficiency of the whole EV in regard to how one uses the heat pump, electrics, etc. I think like anything, the first few years will not see any degradation and afterwards there will be some based on charging style DC versus slower home AC charging, driving style and feature/functions that are used.

This is less about politics and more for a laugh. You know how when you deplane at the end of the flight, the captain may be there at the front of the cabin along with a few flight attendants?  A lot of these guys look like clones of each other.  So, I often wonder which way they vote, at least in the U.S.  I wonder if there's a token one or two who vote(s) for 'the road less traveled' in the privacy of the voting booth.