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It's not pretty and it's not cool, but it'll probably sell.

We don't have a built-in dehumidifier, just a large-ish "portable" one. I set the humidity to 45% and let it do its thing. It has a pump, but I don't have a drain, so I have it pump to a 5gal bucket and empty it daily. If I had to consistently tweak it, it would drive me nuts, as well.

In the Midwest, I couldn't imagine it either. We added a dehumidifier last year and it made a huuuuge difference in what temp we can comfortably keep our place. Prior to the dehumidifier, we had to our place an easy 3-4 degrees cooler to get the same comfort level.

Lead foot and/or a little exaggeration... $600/mo in fuel only adds up if he's getting 11mpg and $5/gal. 12mpg would need to be $5.25/gal. I know there have absolutely been times where premium in WA was probably around $6/gal. But a few months of that are going to be outliers across the 16 years of ownership. I'd safely assume premium is $1/gal more than regular so any point over $4 would net $5 for premium.

Go north, hahaha. My family is from upstate NY and I don't believe any of my relatives have AC. Some have a window unit, but most isn't necessary. Most summer days its mid 80's, not humid, and cools down plenty at night to keep windows open. Their winters though, are brutal.

The only way the math works out on $600/mo to fuel the TrailblazerSS is if you were averaging worse than the city rating the vehicle was rated at AND you were paying $5/gal. I can't imagine you averaged 11mpg AND paid $5 gallon. I'm sure there were periods over the last few years where premium was over $5/gal, but that's not what you were paying the last 15 years.

Ohhh so this is more of a "your house" issue because you have ductwork in the garage. That makes more sense then, because we have never had that issue of a hot car in the garage heating up the house in the summer.

I've literally never heard this, and I live in the Midwest where it's 90's from June-August. Do you guys not insulate the interior facing walls of your garages?

Dang, that's a lot of miles. It looked so good when you traded it in, too. What're your lease mileage agreement?

How many miles did the SS have on it when you traded it in? Gotta get the Mustang out more!

I'm glad you found this because I had never heard charging to 100% didn't negatively affect a battery's lifespan.

No, I meant what state of charge are you charging to at home? Do you charge overnight to 100% battery? Or do you have it set to like 80% as to maintain the life of the battery?

Great writeup, David! It's much appreciated. On your screenshot of "Charging Activity" Is that the miles driven between those dates? So, you drove 265 miles from the 5th to 10th and it cost you $9.22? Am I reading that correctly? And at 0.10/kw that's about 92.2kw used from the two dates? What percentage do you charge to at home? Are you charging to 100%? 90%? 80%?

It seems to me working great for me.

I don't travel anywhere near what you do, but the few I've been so have been horrible. I've never seen even a decent hotel gym.

What’re the yearly mileage of those leases? 10k? 12k? 15k?

I'm saying this, still. What EV is cheaper than an equivalent ICE vehicle? I thought you said you got 1000kW free? Without plugging in at home, that's nowhere near 3 years' worth of charging. What are your rates? Mine varies between $0.11-0.13/kW. We're definitely stuck with an additional charge, which sucks. I was looking into solar quotes the other week and I was talking to an installer and because our town has their own additional charge on top of the $0.081 the electric company charges, the town adds their own $0.03-0.05, depending on the demand. They said the solar production could eliminate the electric company's rate, but I'll still have the town's charge, which seems a little odd, but he said most places they can eliminate or nearly eliminate an electric bill but not so much in my town.

ONLY charging at home is there legitimate savings. Public charging is not significantly cheaper and would never pay off the 20k purchase premium. You're looking at things all wrong. Price per mile is what you should be looking at. At 0.48/kW and 3.65/gal this is the difference. Change those numbers to a more realistic home charging price of 0.12/kW and your current WA average fuel prices and you get the below. REAL savings.

$0.48 per kWh if that wasn't included in your purchase?!? That's insane. It's cheaper to drive an AWD Telluride than that, around me. I see WA fuel prices are way higher, around $4.55/gal/87 octane, but at the national average of $3.65/gal, it's cheaper to drive ICE. That's just mind bogglingly expensive.

As they should. Companies without CarPlay/Android Auto should be adding it, not companies with it, removing it.

GM or Motor Trend? I assume GM? If so, deservingly so. I just cannot comprehend WHY they would get rid of such a feature that everybody loves. I know it's all about the dollar, but this seems like the wrong direction by a long shot.

This is what Motor Trend wrote today on this. It sounds atrocious and that sucks. Soooo many aspects of this truck seem perfect, but the actual infotainment seems like shet. "The one thing missing from the equipment list will be a deal-breaker for some shoppers. GM’s latest infotainment system doesn’t support Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Instead, the 17.7-inch screen runs Google Maps, Google Assistant, and your favorite music streaming app natively. It all works well enough that we’d embrace the change if it didn't mean you'll eventually need to pay a second monthly payment on top of the monthly payment for the truck itself. After a three-year trial, you'll need to a subscription (currently $15 a month) to stream music on downloaded apps like Spotify and after eight years basic Google services such as navigation and voice commands will stop working unless you pony up for an OnStar plan (the exact cost is unclear right now). Apparently the only thing built in to Chevy's Google Built-In features is a method for processing credit card payments. As a workaround, you can stream music from your phone over Bluetooth like it's 2009 again—or buy a different truck." https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-chevrolet-silverado-ev-rst-first-drive-review-2/ Ford/Lincoln have not said this, unless there is newer news. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are both on the Lightning and Mach-e.

That WAS my initial point. There's no time or money savings when stuck publicly charging. The real time and money savings are charging overnight at home. And the only time somebody is pumping gasoline for 20+ minutes is if there's something wrong with a pump. It's the same BS anti-EV people push but from an anti-ICE person, just completely made-up bullsht. How often are you waiting for a pump? I can't remember the last time I pulled into a station and had to wait for an open pump.

I've literally timed myself AND posted it here at one time. I don't know if your PNW nozzles are the size of a drinking straw, but it never takes more than 5 minutes at a pump. You have lost your mind if you think you'll convince any human that you've stood at a pump for TWENTY-TWO MINUTES just filling up an Escalade. There a 100% chance you're lying if you're saying it took you 22 minutes to fill-up an Escalade from E every time. Damn. 14 minutes. That's a good 9-10 minutes longer than it would take to fill-up most anything with a gasoline engine. @Drew Dowdell, your Avalanche probably has the same or very similar size gas tank of an Escalade, right? Do you stand there for 20 minutes or more regularly?

You just said you still had to wait a few minutes after you were done shopping. That few minutes is all it takes to go from E -> F in an internal combustion vehicle. Until you're charging at home, overnight, there is no real savings or convenience involved. Once your free trial period of public charging has expired, it costs about the same to charge publicly at those fast chargers. At home charging is really the only way to save money and time with an EV, when it comes to fuel costs.