EV and winter
Apparently there is a disaster in Chicago. Evs will not move and they can not be charged because of the weather. I am sure the same thing is true in the west and north.
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mike55: 29953120901403/comments/29953131925659
EVs are extremely quite, so much so that some add exhaust noise to make the driver more at ease.
There is a time and place for EVs, but NEVER for a mandate.
I view EVs as either toys or luxury items, not for everyday driver of common people. I do NOT buy into the saving the planet hoax either. I do like the quite part and the torque! I do not like the charge/recharge issues.
I would prefer an EV golf cart for sure, but a gas/diesel primary vehicle!
I bought this EV lithium cart two years ago when my grandson said he wanted a “gofcar”.
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I bought this EV lithium cart two years ago when my grandson said he wanted a “gofcar”.
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How does it perform in the cold weather and snow?
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How does it perform in the cold weather and snow?
Never had it out in the snow. We don’t use it much in real cold weather. However, the rides we do take in cold weather are usually only 20-30 minutes and the golf cart performs fine.
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My EV at least it has pedals of it goes dead
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So- I generally let my wife buy & drive what she wants.
In 2022- that was an EV Audi. She was driving almost 500 miles a week literally just taking the kids to school and sports.
Enter the Audi E-Tron.
This thing has its extreme pros and cons.
There are some folks an EV is a good choice. For example- it has never cost me more than about a dollar a day to charge at home.
That means usually less than thirty bucks a month to drive roughly 2,000 miles around town when the wife was really racking up miles.
Very cool.
Leaving town, well that is another matter all together, it takes planning and additional time. I’d say realistic range is around 250 miles on a road trip between charges. Charging in public, is similar in cost to fueling up with gas. Not good, & the infrastructure to support charging can be very sketchy and you 100% need to plan out your trips & often charging stations are either broken or full.
EV owners talk about “range anxiety” and that is a real problem if you leave your normal bubble.
Not cool.
It’s very quick- 0-60 in 4 seconds and this particular car has some sort of magic Audi suspension & steering that just gets better the harder you drive it.
Very cool.
It requires very, very little maintenance. My car has about 20k miles now and the tires are fine, which I only mention because it’s addressed elsewhere in this thread.
Very cool.
Now they are some oddball 19 inch size so it will probably set me back a pretty Penny to replace them when the time comes.
Not Cool.
Well she figured out she needed a giant people hauler- so long story short the Audi became my car about 6 months ago.
Now the Audi does the around town duty and we have a giant GMC Yukon XL for everything else.
This isn’t bad and just getting me back and forth to work it more like $15 a month to charge at home.
Decent compromise. I drive about 12 miles a day round trip.
I’m trying to not buy 3 cars in 2 years and live with this thing but it’s just not me.
So I decide to trade it in-
In 2 years of ownership, it has lost about 50% of its purchase cost!
Not cool.
So now, I’m having to decide to either keep it as my commuter car and add a third vehicle or trade it in and take the loss to drive what I want.
I live in Orlando- and when the cold snap hit Chicago, it got “cold” here as well. I have never really ran the heater, but reading the news and it being cold, I run a little experiment.
I crank the heat all the way, turn on the heated seats & heated steering wheel- The car dropped its estimated range from ~280 miles to 115 miles instantly. This is Orlando and maybe 48 degree weather. The EV problem becomes pretty apparent for anyone outside of a warm climate that doesn’t just drive in circles and charges at home.
I haven’t decided what I’m gonna do, technically it fits my needs I just don’t like it, but holy cow, do I wish for once in my life I would have leased a vehicle instead of bought it!
Personally I would not buy another pure EV, I think that hybrid technology will ultimately win the day in the long run.
I guess time will tell.
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Great post Warbirds, thanks for the hands on insight on this vehicle.
When I first began to read your post I was thinking that you would not want to own this thing out of warranty, but come to think of it, I would say the same thing about most any high tech motor vehicle.
Have been in the repair end of it in the past, and yesterday a friend asked me about a BMW EV that his daughter wants to buy living in the Bay Area of Commyfornia.
I suggested leasing and if she had to buy, I suggsted a Toyota 4-Runner Hybrid ( if they build such a thing ).
I got the impression that her ego is running the show and needs the bimmer, but for God's sake lease the thing if thats the case.
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Due to damage to my knees and 1 ankle, I try to use an electric shopping cart at the grocery. And THAT formed my opinion of electric cars. I make it to the milk cooler when the charge indicator drops from green to yellow and it starts bleeping at me.
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I liked the story about the guy who bought a Ford 150 EV somewhere west of Chicago. He loaded up the family and headed east. They made it to somewhere around Detroit, where he went to a Ford dealer and traded the EV truck in for a gas-powered one and continued on his trip.
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