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only interested if i don't have to interact with fucking touch screen menus to shift modes from park/reverse/neutral/drive etc, tune the sound system, or adjust the HVAC.
I want ~~shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less~~ physical buttons knobs switches dials and levers that i can navigate blindly because i can touch them without accidentally activating them and I'm not kidding.
Chevy bolt has switches and knobs for all of that. It has a 200 mile average range at 3.5kw per mile and takes an hour at a fast charger to get from 20% to 100%
Last part is why they're so cheap right now.
... 3.5kw per mile is not a unit that makes sense though???
wait. no. I'll look this up myself.
Okay. So. It's 3.5 miles per Kilowatt-HOUR
Where I live, we have municipal hydroelectric power.
Per Kilowatt-Hour or KwH, it costs around 17.44 cents. I'm going to round that up for a less-ideal-case-scenario to $0.18/KwH
$0.18 per 3.5 miles = $0.05143 per mile.
times 200 miles, that's $10.29
Filling my "tank" to drive 200 miles costing only a hair above ten bucks is pretty fucking great actually O_O
Of course this is assuming I'm charging at home.
Which ... I would be, of course!
I don't tend to go far.
Was in a Bolt EUV for about 6 weeks while my wife’s Soul got the engine replaced (Kia paid for the rental). I ran the numbers and had a similar result as you. Very nearly bought one but the fast charging was abysmally slow and the cup holder was unusually narrow, couldn’t fit my water bottle that has fit in every other car before or since. Also, my car at the time was our long-distance hauler. Still strongly considering electric for when I replace it. Chevy’s new Equinox and Blazer EVs fixed my complaints and still have the physical buttons, but got rid of Apple CarPlay/Android Auto for a custom interface from Google.
It’s unlikely, but please be under 35k.
Are these to be manufactured in the US at Smyrna, for the Canadian and US markets?
Eventually the chargers will be using USB-C, hopefully. But seriously, we need a standardized charging, don't we?