I was unpleasantly surprised with the battery recall and accompanying restrictions on my Bolt EUV, and also with how much more than GM’s $1250 contribution my charging outlet cost. But I was pleasantly surprised by GM’s buyback offer - I essentially drove the EUV for 8 months for the just cost of the electricity I used (12.5 cents/KWh for the vast majority of it).

With my Ioniq 6, the surprises have been how nice it is to use HDA2 and how bad the EA chargers near me actually are - with the Bolt, if they worked at all they were maxing it out; with the Ioniq 6 I’m typically getting less than 50% of what I could be getting. One time out of eleven sessions I got 235KW peak, every other time has been 125KW or less for the peak.