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Cake day: October 23rd, 2023

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  • Sorry but this is BS. California in most areas (under PG&E) pays .28/kwh on a time of use plan. That’s equivalent to about 50mpg in a gas car. Unless you never pay to charge at home and only use free work chargers and/or have unlimited free supercharging, your Subaru is roughly 50% of the cost of charging an EV. Your statement is akin to saying “I spent more on food in one month on vacation than I did at work the rest of the year.” When you work at Google and get free meals.


  • After owning EVs for a decade I found out a few things that caused me to recently give up and go with a conventional hybrid.

    1. Electricity is no longer cheap. It now costs me .28/kwh. I’m not saving much compared to gas.
    2. I’m not getting incentives anymore on EVs so they aren’t cheaper to buy either.
    3. In CA you get to pay an extra fee on your registration just by owning them.
    4. They chew through tires
    5. Public charging and distance charging is annoying. Tesla’s are by far the easiest but stopping still sucks.
    6. Insurance is usually higher.
    7. You fixate on your battery health and babying the charging parameters to keep it healthy
    8. There’s literally no affordable 3-row EV SUVs. It’s a soon to be released Hyundai or an $85k Tesla or Rivian. In all cases the efficiency sucks and it costs even more to charge them (see #1)

  • Depending on which credit card you used check to see if if your credit card has accidental damage coverage within the first 30 days. this happened to me with an Apple Watch a few years ago and I didn’t even know that this was a thing. Luckily the card I used had it and they reimburse me 300 bucks for a screen replacement.