Hey everyone,

First off, I'm new to posting on this sub. I read the rules but not 100% sure where to flair this. Not exactly seeking buying advice but just some information without Tesla bias.

I'm going on the market for an EV soon and been trying to decide between the Tesla or an Equinox EV. A lot of factors are relatively favouring Tesla right now but I'm trying to really fight it and give Elon less money, if I can.

Tesla vision has me freaked out a bit - it's cost cut to the point of bad autopilot it seems. The latest model does seem to have improved cameras and stuff but not sure if that translates to reliability in any way.

It got me wondering if either the 2024/25 equinox EV use more than just cameras. They say Lidar maps, but it doesn't seem to have any Lidar (undesirably that's crazy expensive), but all my digging only shows up other "sensors". Maybe it's radar, or maybe Ultrasound, or maybe it's just blind spot sensors or something.

Wouls anyone out here have info on whether this car's ADAS actually has any official engineering reason to be considered a safer system than Tesla's AP?

We all have our biases, but sometimes the bias is so great it's almost funny.

This review comparing the Model Y vs Nissan Ariya is funny for that reason. He goes into the review just stating he only loves the Model Y interior and sometimes when the Ariya has something over the Model Y he notes "but the model Y could have it next year"

But the ending is the most funniest. He thought the Model Y would have more space than the Ariya but both stored 15 Ikea boxes, but he shows that his friend can fit into the model Y underfloor space because, I mean, who doesn't want to sneak someone into the drive in for free after buying $50k+ vehicle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlFcmvoPtMw

Hey guys

I'm a new EV owner. I've had my Cupra Tavascan delivered around a month ago and, well, let's say it hasn't been the best of experiences yet.

Don't get me wrong, I love the car to bits and I'm huge on EVs. They're so much more fun to drive to me than an ICE.

But the car had to go back to the dealership 2 weeks after I first got it. All of a sudden I got warnings about the 12V battery as well as the electric drive not working properly and I couldn't move the car. 1.5 weeks later (last wednesday) I got the car back and the dealership told me the charger was broken (whatever that means), but they got a new part, installed it and that I should be fine now.

Been driving around 250km since Wed and now the car started using insane amounts of power. Like, it's never been the most efficient car (avg. 23-24kWh/100km on highways), but it shot up to 31-32kWh/100km, which seems completely insane to me. The temperature is hovering around 0-1 degrees Celsius (has been around there these last few weeks) and I'm not doing anything different than I have before. Hell, I've even driven the exact same road as always and haven't been using the seat heaters or anything like that.

Could this be an error on the side of the dealership, or am I just fucked? Not really feeling the 250km I'd get out of my car with this kind of efficiency.

I'm thinking about buying an Electric pick up.truck because it seems to be the Way the future is headed. If i was pulling a 6,000 pound Camper than I would get roughly half the mileage off a charge from my math. In the Southwest such as Arizkna, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico etc out in the boonies are there much in the way of charge stations? And in general can I go to a charge station pulling a 22 foot camper?

EDIT:thank you for all the responses, do you think it still 5-10 more years before towing a camper across multiple states is feasible?

I live about 2/3 of a mile from this Thornton’s in West Chicago, IL that is where Illinois Routes 59 (Neltnor Bvld) and 38 (Roosevelt Rd) cross and discovered that they now have these two BP Charging Units on the west side of the building that I had somehow missed before today. I usually stop here for E85 in my flex fuel car since it is so close and they have a $.50/gal discount on the stuff and just so happened to see these units when I pulled in. After I finished filling the car I went in and bought a Frozen Coke and some of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups they have on sale for $1.00 and asked. Apparently these were installed a month ago, they were just waiting for them to get hooked up so they can be used. Didn’t think to ask if it was a BP, ComEd, or City of West Chicago related issue, but hopefully they will be working soon.

Hey all, I am trying to calculate kWh/100 km for my 2024 BMW i4 - can someone tell me if I am on the right track?

I am using kWh data from our Tesla charger for more precise kWh readings and I have an export showing charge % state before and after. Battery capacity is 83.9 kWh.

So if I subtract post-charge % x 83.9 and subtract pre-charge % x 83.9 that should give me kWh used, right? Roughly - since I the charge percent would not be 100% accurate I am sure.

The majority of times I charge to 80%, but I was trying to calculate for a period where I didn't.

Thanks!

I have Allstate insurance, I'm reading that your insurance premiums go higher with electric. Does anyone have any statistics about how much higher? Even if it's not all state I would love to hear how much it went up. We've never had an electric before.

I have a 2024 Ford Mach-E (basic model, lower range) and I’m thinking on driving to Phoenix, Arizona this week from San Diego, CA

A better route planner tells me to stop in Electrify America at El Centro but Plugshare shows a 4.8 rating (out of 10) there. Looks like multiple issues.

I do not see many working options with decent reviews/rating to use in El Centro.

Has anyone done that drive? With a non-Tesla EV? I do not have any adapter yet. I’m waiting for Ford to ship me the one for supercharger and I ordered the one for level 2 charger but it has not arrive

Should I reconsider the roadtrip? We have an ICE car bur we want to try EV (first EV roadtrip). Should I buy the adapter for Tesla supercharger? It might arrive on time

I just bought my first EV, it’s a Kia Niro Wind. I still don’t have my 240v charger installed so I connected to a regular outlet without an extension. The vendor told me that on my wire you can set the transformer to 6-12-15A but even when I click the button it always stays on 6. Any idea why ?

I have a new Honda Prologue.

An electrician is installing a 220V plug directly from my garage's 30-amp breaker box. He only needs to run it 3 feet. I opted for a portable charger with both 110V and 220V plug in options. I average 9k miles per year, and he's charging me $200 for the installation. Is there anything I should know or be concerned about?

Hired a Ford Kuga PHEV for my trip home to Ireland.

Charged at my sister's house with the supplied trickle charger.

Tested real world rural driving range in 6°C weather looks to be about 35km. @25c / kWh with a 14.4kwh battery that costs €3.60. or €10.30 / 100km. (Generously assuming 100% charging efficiency)

Driving on an empty battery from the airport the computer was saying I was getting 6L/100km @ €1.80 that's €10.80.

To me this is woefully inefficient and not worth the effort, added embodiment energy/cost of a battery, maintenance and system complexity.

Disclaimer: I drive full electric in Australia and the numbers easily stack up in favour of electric. I'm not spread FUD but PHEVs need a serious rethink in cold climates.

UPDATE: My car arrived this morning and is perfect. Driving it does feel a little different than driving an ICE vehicle, but it was much more intuitive than I was expecting based on how the driving experience is discussed online. All the stuff I am confused by seems to be peripheral or not something I need to be worried about in order to use the vehicle as designed. I'm loving my new car!

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My first ever EV is being delivered to my home tomorrow morning. I've never driven an electric vehicle before. What do I need to know? What do you wish you'd known at this point? I have already purchased the car and am very happy with what I'm getting, the deal I got, etc. so this isn't a question about that.

I'm getting an Ioniq 6. My previous two vehicles were both Hyundai, so I'm relatively familiar with what their ICE vehicles are like to drive (hence no test drive). Most of the "normal" car aspects of the 6 seem familiar enough to me.

I'm mainly asking this question because as I lurk in this sub, some of the things people write about their EVs seem completely incomprehensible to me. Like "I tried to use my zooble app to turboflip the hyperkey, but then I realized you actually need to hold your phone and the hyperkey exactly 4.2 millimeters apart in order to create the gigacharge" or "keep in mind that when you're reversing the polarity, always double tap the regen paddle if you don't want all the blastoise to fall out of the undercarriage." I'm exaggerating, but this is legit what it sounds like to me.

I called the auto broker today re the ongoing recall stuff that's been going on with Hyundai EVs lately, and he was like "oh yeah, they already took care of it on your vehicle, it was just a software update issue." Software update. On my car. Cool cool. Meanwhile, half the time I forget how to open the doors on a Tesla.

I'm sure this will be fine, but is there anything I really need to understand before getting behind the wheel of one of these?

Reading through all the posts about the costs of installing a Level 2 charger in the garage made me wonder about what value it would add to the resale value of the home? We might not be that far away from when new home buyers will be expecting a house to come with EV charging already onsite.

Companies charge way more for electric vehicles than they do for a regular combustion engine cars, what's the reason behind that ? They don't even have engines and other expensive components!