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Yes, I bought an electric car
11/26/2015 | Ctyankee

Posted on 11/26/2015 10:36:45 AM PST by #1CTYankee

The wife and I Purchased an electric car about a month ago.

I'm as far as a tree hugger as you can get but we needed a vehicle.

Our son will be starting collage soon so a another vehicle was needed.

Her total commute is close to 6 miles, the car had 2,560 miles when we bought it.

it's a 2012, fairly well equipped with air, power windows, mirrors, power locks, heated seats, etc.

Since the range is only an estimated 62 miles it works for us.

My Car is not restricted on distance since it's petroleum powered so it should work out nicely.

7,750$ for a car that listed @ 23,850 in 2012 looked pretty good.

I had net ever heard about this car it's known as a i miev.


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KEYWORDS: car; deathtrap; efv; electricity; energy; idiocracymobile
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To: Bubba_Leroy
I got that.
She needs to have something reliable for an emergency, the hospital is about 10 miles from here so it shouldn't be a problem.
61 posted on 11/26/2015 11:43:18 AM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it?? (this tag line is older than your teeth))
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To: #1CTYankee

I had a two-mile commute to work for a few years. I changed from my Chevy Avalanche to a Toyota Camry Hybrid and let the gas savings roll in. Something like $75/month in gas to about $20. Now that I have a much longer commute, I’m saving even more.


62 posted on 11/26/2015 11:43:49 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: #1CTYankee

Range is important to me. Also winter performance. The colder it gets the less power or sustaining power. Same holds true in extremely hot weather too.


63 posted on 11/26/2015 11:44:16 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: #1CTYankee

I have two retired friends who own Chevy Volts and they love them......


64 posted on 11/26/2015 11:44:29 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: #1CTYankee

We have a hybrid (Honda Civic with all the high-end trim packages and retrofitted with Honda fog lights in place of the day-time running lights that are standard). It makes sense — saves lots of money on gas.

Electric-only makes no sense here in the Great Plains. If I lived in an urbanized area and had a petroleum powered vehicle suitable for long distance trips, I’d certainly look at an electric-only vehicle for commuting.

When green and cheap coincide, go green. The problem is leftists and deluded urbanites who even if not leftist fancy that what makes sense in densely populated areas is a universal good pushing them on everyone.


65 posted on 11/26/2015 11:50:20 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: sparklite2

Definitely not a babe magnet tho.........


66 posted on 11/26/2015 11:50:37 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Bryanw92
Funny thing is we are at 2,120 ft.

Her work is at 650 ft.

She uses 0 miles in the Getting there but 6 comming home.

67 posted on 11/26/2015 11:51:17 AM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it?? (this tag line is older than your teeth))
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To: #1CTYankee

The total energy use of an electric car gas has to include the generation of electricity. Factor that in and get back to me with the numbers.


68 posted on 11/26/2015 11:51:21 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Hot Tabasco

When you’re retired, not much is a babe magnet.
Maybe having all your own teeth... ;)


69 posted on 11/26/2015 11:52:18 AM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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70 posted on 11/26/2015 11:55:24 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: al_c
Yeah it does.

Butt ugly but it's really a nice car.

I got her a magnetic bumper sticker that says:

Yeah:

It's a clown car .

71 posted on 11/26/2015 11:59:04 AM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it?? (this tag line is older than your teeth))
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To: dsrtsage

Thanks for your post sage, appreciated.


72 posted on 11/26/2015 12:00:13 PM PST by onona (something pithy this way comes)
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To: Ditter

If electricity is 12 cents per kWh -the national average - it would cost $3.48 to go 100 miles. Another way to calculate cost is to use the number of kilowatt-hours it takes to recharge the EV’s battery. If an EV requires 20 kWh to fully recharge and the rate is 12 cents per kWh, that’s $2.40 to “fill up” the car.


73 posted on 11/26/2015 12:00:14 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Vendome

Actually his community collage experience will be limited, he wants to follow his uncle’s foot steps in running heavy equipment


74 posted on 11/26/2015 12:05:00 PM PST by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it?? (this tag line is older than your teeth))
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To: sparklite2
Maybe having all your own teeth... ;)

Yep, and they're all paid for.........

75 posted on 11/26/2015 12:05:06 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: AlaskaErik

I don’t know. There are plenty of plated golf carts around Surprise, Az though.


76 posted on 11/26/2015 12:07:30 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: #1CTYankee

>>>there is no subsidies on used cars<<<

I was referring to new ones but I guess I wasn’t clear.

Looks like you got a great deal for such a low mileage car.

Same Range as a Nissan Leaf but for a lot less money used.
Here in CA a used Nissan Leaf still costs a lot of money.

Good luck with the Car. Happy Thanksgiving.


77 posted on 11/26/2015 12:15:56 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You don’t have to be a “tree hugger” to be interested in electric cars or hybrid cars or solar energy.

+1

78 posted on 11/26/2015 12:21:00 PM PST by Drew68
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To: smokingfrog

Looking for a new car?
If the advertisement says,
“Loads of Personality,”
no man should be caught dead in it.


79 posted on 11/26/2015 12:23:41 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: #1CTYankee

I commute 40 miles a day and live in a state where it often gets below zero. That 62 mile range would not not get me reliably to and from work as I would need to use the lights, defroster, heater and wipers many days and at below zero temperatures that battery has no where near a 62 mile range. With a 6 mile commute and a milder climate the electric car might work great. I noted the rather large depreciation. In three years the vehicle goes from a $28K sticker price to a $7.7K market value. That says a lot about market value for electric cars


80 posted on 11/26/2015 12:27:13 PM PST by The Great RJ (�Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money.� Margaret Thatcher)
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