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Hybrid could mean higher maintenance, be interesting to see with all the hybrids coming out how the maintenance cost plays out compared to ICE or BEV.

Anything to help the transition to EV is a good thing imho.

Houses are well insulated but take a hot V8 into your garage and the house will still heat up due to all the heat put off by the engine, it is literally a heat sink that heats up a house when you want to keep it cool. As an owner of a Split-Level home where the heater is in the garage also, even though when I bought this place in 1999 and gutted it to the studes and updated the insulation, sheetrock, etc. remodel to current building standards in 1999, the ducting for the heater is still in the garage and goes to all the bedrooms upstairs as well as throughout the rest of the house. Hot V8 still radiates till it cools off cold and so that heat will transfer via the ducting throughout the houe. EV's never do this, so a benefit to an EV.

EV Love, The Seattle area is in a Heat Advisory with temps for the next 10 days forecasted to be in the high 80's to low 90's. We have a house facing south and no shade so to keep the auto cool you would put it in the garage. The bad part of ICE is the V8 is a huge heat sink that heats up the house when you come home. EV9, you come home go into the garage and no heat, cooler house. Loving this about the EV.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!

Thank you @Drew Dowdell for this great news, look forward to seeing the summer excitement of Automania at C&G.

That is the funny part, I was originally thinking of leasing at 20,000 a year as I figured she would have room to spare, but she said with no kids in the house she thinks she would be driving less, so we went with 15,000 miles a year lease. Did not know our son would want her there daily helping out with the grandkids and then on top her side and my side still asking for help, so it is what it is, but hopefully things will slow down now that the kids are out for the summer and the wider range of family seems to be cooling down. If not, Oh well, will have to deal with it when the lease is up. Course if she likes it, I always have the buy out option over paying the mileage, but will see when the time comes.

SS was traded in with 249,000 miles over 15 years or 16,600 miles a year. Seems with Grand Kids my wife is driving way more as right now she is on track to put on 28,800 miles a year or for this year, 19,200 miles. Yup she drives allot.

You found my Brother from another mother.

I also would not have thought about it much, is it very noticable?

Lovely Mix of autos, agree with you what things felt like when we were 20 is so different in our 50's Happy Birthday Robert

Official 2 month Anniversary of our EV9, YES we still LOVE it!!! ? Miles Driven - 4,800 Cost of Electricity - $85.33 to date Loving that I no longer am averaging $600 for Premium fuel in the SS we traded in each month or the $100 every 2 months for the Synthetic oil change. Yes, We Are Loving the EV Life Style. ?

30C is too damn hot for me. Have fun on your road trip.

Interesting read on how many Solar panels you need to power your EV, your Home, etc. Here's How Many Solar Panels You'll Need to Charge Your EV (msn.com)

WOW, about time Chrome Died Why the company behind Jeep and Dodge will no longer offer chrome in new vehicles (msn.com)

WOW they pummeled Volvo, Mercedes and Audi for EVs NOT to buy and praised Tesla, Hyundai as some of the best EVs. I Have Driven Over 100 EVs: These Are the Best and Worst for Your Money (msn.com) OUCH Bloomberg has quoted the JD Powers Survey that shows Tesla is on Par with Rivian, GM, Hyundai for EV quality due to bizarre design changes such as removing turn signal stalk and instead going with a push button on the steering wheel. Tesla’s Design Changes Confuse Drivers and Undercut EV Quality (msn.com)

This is interesting to see for Farrari, the fake exhaust tips are just too funny! This Is Our First Look at Ferrari's New EV (motor1.com)

I have far more faith in RJ leading Rivian than Musk and Tesla long term, as such today I pulled the trigger this morning on buying Rivian Stock. I agree with this story. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/will-rivian-rebound-heres-how-high-wall-st.-predicts-the-ev-stock-can-rise

Excited for the Pickup which you can see is in the GT blue with the EV9 headlights and other pieces.

Have to say that we love our EV9. Wife came home last night with 54% on the battery pack and plugged it in to have 100% in the morning as she informed me, she needed to run up north to deal with my side of the family and then down south to deal with her side of the family about 250 miles of driving. Plug in the L2 charger and let it charge up overnight. No running out to the gas station. Kia own battery group has conflicting info on charging and maximum usage compared to their auto site. @surreal1272 Thank you good info, had not seen that, but then did not look there compared to their battery division. Also knowing that Kia / Hyundai / Genesis has different batteries from LFP to Solid State coming online in 2026 and 2027 this was why Leasing made sense to me, I am looking at 3 years only before trading it in on a new EV. Wife is averaging 150 miles a day driving, usually she waits till it is down to mid-teens percentage before plugging in at home for charging. Overall, EV experience for us has been positive and I am hoping to add the EV9 Pickup as a replacement to my Escalade next year. Pretty much averaging charging every 5 days or so right now, once our new grandson gets a bit older and the other grandkids are out for the summer, next week it begins, my wife will not be driving as much in going to help with daily getting the kids to school and helping out. This can mean that I can see her going to only charging every 7 to 10 days then. We will see.

Very cool a snow removal system for EVs. https://gmauthority.com/blog/2024/06/gm-files-patent-for-snow-clearing-function-on-electric-vehicles/ Wow, wish I had bought stock last week. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagen-invest-up-5-billion-rivian-part-tech-joint-venture-2024-06-25/

I am not worried about the battery life and so we charge to 100% each time and life is fine. Kia does not state the 80% thing of Tesla and others. They are saying you are fine charging to 100% if you daily driving the EV. The only note is a statement in their online document that if you plan to have the EV sit they do not recommend having it fully charged at 100%.

Very cool to see how advanced Kia has become over other EV makers for their stock EVs. https://insideevs.com/news/724217/ioniq-5-n-pikes-peak/

Some interesting reading. Here's Why People Are Willing to Pay More for an EV - CNET The Real Costs of Electric Car Ownership - CNET Why I Don't Own an Electric Car Yet - CNET EV Charging vs. Gas: We Do the Math to See Which is Cheaper - CNET I will say that the last writing where people say installing a home charger negates any savings on charging versus gas buying. That might be true if they have been driving a Prius but for me that had an SS my wife drove spending $600 a month on premium fuel or $7,200 a year on gas, even if I had paid the cost of an Electrician installing a home charger rather than doing it myself as I wrote about here: I am still coming out ahead on home charging with an EV that is roomy, comfortable and way better in many ways than my SS was.

Yes, that is correct, the miles between charging that has been driven by my wife. Correct, on your 265 miles statement. We are charging almost 100% at home as unless I go on a road trip, there is no need for local fast charging at this time since we can just come home plug it in and the next morning before my wife leaves, she has a full battery pack. So other than the Electrify America Charging in Yakima that we did when we went for cherries two weeks ago, all charging is at home.