Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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EV owners... What is your opinion? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 days ago by thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org to c/electricvehicles@slrpnk.net

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I am probably going to trade in my car for an EV this year. I have been following the technology for a while but I really do no not like all the touchscreen nonsense.

Do you like your EV? What is it? What are the pros and cons of your experience?

The Ford MachE and the Subaru Solterra are at the top of my list but I like the KIA too.

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[–] PhotatoMan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Tesla model 3 for three years. I'm located in northern Finland so we get a lot of snow and low temperatures around here. These cars are perfect winter vehicles. Defrosts in 10 minutes and you can sit into a nice warm car in with heated seats and steering wheel.

I have a China made euro model so it doesn't come with the panel gaps or many other QC issues that US built vehicles has. It's been a great owner experience overall.

I charge mostly at home at 11KW and the fast charging network is pretty great in general so charging is seldom an issue. Next car would probably have been a Tesla again If it wasn't an American company.

But because it is, I might have to look at in my opinion less exciting but equally nice options such as Kia or VW. I really like the new Smart 5 too.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm in Eastern Washington State USA, so I have to consider long cold winters.

Sadly Elon has ruined all interest for me in a Tesla

[–] hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

The number one thing to consider is having a heat pump. I live in SE Michigan with my i3, having owned one without a heat pump and now with, it's night and day difference. Even when it's -15F, I only lose about 30% range at most while it was closer to 50% without the heat pump. Preconditioning the battery makes that closer to only a 15% loss.