Where I live (Canada - Ontario) there is a LOT of "wailing and gnashing of teeth" about the rampant auto theft among the more well off. (MY 2010 Toyota Yaris not so much). Which led me to wonder since I will almost certainly buy an EV and - if the price comes down and I feel secure about the battery a Tesla - what the theft rate is for Teslas and other EVs (like KIAs).

Does anyone have some useful information.

Also, what does basic connectivity cost per month and HOW does that work? If you can just point me at a some link that explains it (I'm too frugal to buy premium, especially with how little I drive after Covid).

I live in a cool neighbourhood but there's plenty of petty theft in the area (Canada, west coast). I'd love to install an EV charger (don't have a garage) but want to avoid theft. The thieves in our area aren't particularly sophisticated and grab whatever's available. I've got two ideas for this:

1. Make a lockable locker outside and out the charger in it.

2. Our driveway is adjacent to our main breaker panel in our basement. Could one just install the charger next to the panel and then run the cord outside?

Thank you for your response.

I just came back from a road trip and I had problems with the Shell station and there are three $60 charges pending from that little fiasco. I’m just waiting to see if they remove them cause I didn’t actually get any electricity from that station. Then I look, and I have two from EVgo from the same charging session for different amounts. I’m waiting to see if they drop any before they post but I’m a little frustrated at seeing this mess.

I see a lot of people complaining about needing a new app for almost every station. Maybe it's just my region but I've had Chargepoint NFC cards work with a surprisingly high number of DCFC chargers I've had to charge at. I'm hoping Chargepoint is being aggressive about partnering, or that there's some sort of universal OCPP payment protocol in the works, but give it a try next time you're at a DCFC.

I owned a volt and loved it probably the best Ev made in my opinion. Why didn't more companies focus on diesel/gas range extender evs. That fixes almost every single problem that people have with ev adoption. You still have full long range capability along with plug and play charging at home the remaining 90% of the time.

I feel ev adoption would have been significantly faster if most evs had some form of gas/diesel range extender.

Then once battery tech and charging speed and stations are at a reasonable capacity then people will begin to adopt full evs naturally over time

My company is pushing me to get an electric vehicle and I am avoiding like the plague bc I travel from NYC to Catskills and sometimes Adirondacks for snowboarding. Most weekend I go to one of the two. This is at least 280-300 miles to Catskills round trip and I know the ev’s be capping on how many miles they got, so good chance I may have to public charge almost every time I go snowboarding. In a location with not too many ev chargers, and at a time where a lot of people will have to public charge.

The idea that I’d have to add 20 minutes to a 3-4 hour compared to 5 min to gas is inconvenient, but I fear that I may arrive and all chargers are full. Then I’d end up spending 30-40 mins on top of a 3/4 drive “gassing up” aka just hanging at a gas station when I’m trying to get home. I already hate the traffic filled long ride home, and am tired/low on patience atp in day so this is just not something I’m trying to deal w.

Does anyone drive up north for skiing/snowboarding in winter and use charging stations up there after they finish up. Is this something that yall have ever ran into? How frequently?

This is only time I really use car so the argument of not gassing throughout the weeks is irrelevant to me. I know it’s ironic I got a company car. It just a nuance of being a sales guy living in NYC.

I'm considering getting a Model Y, but I currently rent and don't have a garage. My only option is 120v, and winters here can get to below 0F, but on average are high teens and 20s as the low. My commute is like 7 miles round trip, and I'm wondering if an EV in these circumstances is stupid. My work parking is a heated garage, and they do have some chargers there.

Trying to figure out a home charging setup. I don't have any plugs outside the house close to where I park. So I'm thinking of having an outlet installed.

Before I decide on anything, I was just wondering if the evse that came with the car would be a good enough charging solution if it's left plugged in to the wall?

If I can just use this to charge the car I'd be installing a weatherproof locker to that the evse would be staying in so it doesn't get water damage.

edit: upon further inspection of the evse that came with my Bolt, it looks like it isn't the OEM one. it's this one (

not sure if the previous owner of the bolt lost the one that came with it or what, but that's the evse I have.

We've had a Kia EV6 for a few 2.5 years now and recently found a screaming deal on a low mileage 2019 Kia Niro EV so we swapped out our ailing Subaru Outback for the Niro and are now fully electric. Our solar generation has produced a net negative bill since we bought the EV6 so it will be interesting to see if we actually have to start paying for electricity again. Even if we do it's going to be much less than we were spending in gas. We're stoked to finally have eliminated the chore of gas stations.

I am a rental car fleet manager and a car enthusiast. I like EVs, I also like ICE. I have so much experience with both, and see the pros and cons of both, but this is about a fleet managerial perspective.

EVs have largely failed to gain significant ground in the rental market, as we all know. I’ve seen so many people ask why that is the case and people giving wrong or mostly wrong answers. These answers generally come down two points, the lack of infrastructure and the need to rent cars out as fast as possible. This is mostly wrong. While it is true that more infrastructure could help, it doesn’t actually solve the real problem with EV rentals.

The problem comes down to space. Think for a second about what exactly a car is, ICE or electric. They are huge and take up a ton of space. When you are managing a 1,000 cars, that takes up a ton of space. Rental car companies at airports are allocated space by the airport operations based on a number of factors, but usually the amount said companies pay the airport in commission. The problem is that the space allocated is almost never enough and frankly there is no way for them to ever be enough. We all have to pack those cars as tightly as possible in the space we are allocated, and we all still run out of space inevitably, we will start leaving them in grass fields. Some places have dirt lots they can dump them in but for our case, we have to dump them in grass field.

Now how does this relate to EVs? EV charging stations also take up significant space that could be used for cars. If we only had EVs and there were charging stations all throughout our allocated spaces, this would mean that more cars would be thrown in the field where there are no charging stations. We simply put them wherever we can.

The reason we have so many cars that need to be thrown in a field is because places often have surge seasons or times.

EVs drain while idle. I know it isn’t to the degree that many make it out to be, but that isn’t acceptable when you are simply looking for a place to put it. My company has done the math, if we were to switch entirely to EVs at most locations, our allocated space would need to 9x.

I’m not an EV hater. I would love to switch over to EVs because it would drastically reduce maintenance stress, but it’s just not possible at a large scale. And this isn’t changing with infrastructure or any time soon.

If you want to see for yourself, go to your airport and look are the National or Herts storage areas. It’s insane. Infrastructure cannot solve this.

Every year or 12,000km they will inspect my door hinges, lube random things, inspect my tires, check fluids, and fondle the batteries - all for a low price of $69.95. Is this normal with dealers?

I know they need to monetize and capitalize on the lack of EV service requirements but I’ve been around cars, mechanics and the like for almost my whole life and know nobody is doing anything on the list.

I live in an electrical vehicle heavy city and all of the charging stations are constantly full. At the charging station nearest my home, there are often 3 or 4 cars queueing for the next spot. I’ve seen this nearly come to blows since there is no dedicated area for queueing and no one knows who all is there or when one person was there before the other. Has anyone seen any effective queueing models in the setting of a packed parking lot?

First week of EV ownership and this is infuriating. I should be able to pull up to a charger, tap my card, and start charging like at a gas station pump. Instead, I have to download an app, set up an account, give it my name email phone number address life story favorite sport what I had for breakfast how many drinks I have per week etc. Then manually enter credit card. Add cash. Then match the serial number of the charger to what I see in the app. Only THEN can I charge.

Or since they’re so accommodating I have the option to call a phone number, enter the serial number and my credit card info that way. How convenient.

It’s driving me insane, pun intended.

Edit: I own a VW in the US. I forget the US is in fact not the center of the universe.

I am injured.

This would be the perfect time for a.s.s. to work.

It doesn't work in the parking lot at the college. It doesn't work in any rain. It doesn't work if it's dusty outside.

I'm telling you. This idea of a robo taxi that functions anywhere will not come to fruition while we are alive.

And of course, this gets auto-deleted on the Tesla sub.