G. David Felt

OUCH, that sucks. Hopefully they can get it resolved sooner rather than later.

For our remodel, I am planning on adding a heat pump to the house as that will give me the cooling during the summer and it naturally takes out the bone chill of the rain in the fall / winter.

An EV I would never buy even if they sell the remaining produced units for just a few thousand dollars. SKIP Wonder how they will come up with the money to pay for the new replacement pumps.

That should make it easy for you to do it as a DIY project if you're up to it.

Got it, yes a March 7th 2025 Reveal date for the R2 with first half 2026 production in Georgia. Those are a long time away compared to the deals that are starting to happen on current EVs. Are you going to then install a L2 charger at the house?

@ccap41 @Robert Hall It dawned on me that for most places in the US, AC is common in homes, condo's even apartments. Washington state has 25% of homes as of 2022 built with central AC / HeatPump Cooling, and that is mostly only in the last decade. Another 32% use some form of portable AC unit in a segment of their living space. As such during the summer we do not have any means to cool the house when we have a heatwave such as the one we are in now where todays temp is 97, inside my house with a portable AC unit the upstairs is 82. As such, adding a V8 powered auto into the garage would radiate heat into the home with or without my heater and ducting being in the garage. Opening up the garage door to go inside would also allow some heat into the interior space.

WOW, a face only a mother or designer could love. That is one ugly SUV/CUV and the interior looks so dated to me imho.

What about the Kia/Hyundai/Genesis lease deals on their EVs? Or are you thinking to buy?

SS average only 12mpg, with the bulk of driving local except for the drive down to Tacoma or up to Smokey Point, the SS was about performance not fuel efficiency. Premium fuel in WA has been around $5 mark for the last decade here. So yea, went from $400 to $500 and then the last 5 to 6 years was $600 a month.

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)