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Drove great on vacation.... really a great road trip car, soaks up the miles..I had mostly short days--25-300 miles, but one day (Asheville, NC to home outside Cleveland, Oh) was 550 miles... fast, smooth and comfortable. Getting decent gas mileage also. I ran into a retired couple from Michigan in Macon, GA in the hotel parking lot one morning--they have an identical 2019 CT6 with 148k miles! Mine is at 63k now. Hours of rolling along, mostly streaming a 1990s grunge soundtrack (Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, Alice In Chains, etc) and some later Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters and Audioslave...reliving the music of my 20s-30s.

32,000 miles at 20 mpg average (Kia Telluride AWD combined average) is 1,600 gallons. At $3.50 a gallon, that would be $5,600

Got back Sunday from my 10 day vacation/road trip around the southeast. Had great weather, was good to get away from wintry NE Ohio. Visited several beaches, toured historic Beaufort SC and Savannah GA, explored the mountains of western NC, toured a couple museums (NASCAR Hall of Fame and Museum in Charlotte NC and The Big House/Allman Brothers Band Museum in Macon GA). My CT6 performed great on the 2100 mile trip, soaking up the miles comfortably. Saw a few interesting old cars including this unusual JDM RHD Toyota Crown Athlete wagon was parked next to me one morning outside my hotel in Wytheville, VA and this MGB GT in Beaufort, SC. A pic of my Caddy outside my hotel in Beaufort, SC and at a pull off up in the mountains near Cherokee, NC.

As a former Miata owner, I agree.

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.