Posts Tagged ‘EV’
I haven’t actually painted it yet. Still waiting on the license plates to came in. For some reason, still having the dealer plates on it feels like it’s not mine yet.
We went on a road trip that usually cost $30 in gas and it took $7 of charge. So yeah, I’m still paying for power, but it’s a fraction of what gas is and will be. The crazy thing is that I can sit between the car seats. The whole reason for the outback was to fit a grownup and two car seats in the back. The scion couldn’t fit a grownup in the FRONT seat with a rear facing car seat in the back. There is now cobwebs on the wheels of the outback.
They definitely could have come down on price, but the odds of finding another certified-used bolt near that price with a good battery before the Oregon rebate window ended were slim.
Sometimes, in programming, you will tell someone about a problem that you’re trying to solve. Sometimes you just have to tell a rubber duck. And in the telling, you figure out how to fix the problem. So I was the duck. Quack Quack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
We’ve been salivating over EV cars for a few years now but they’ve always been out of our price range. The idea of getting away from gas prices is very appealing.