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.

Ohio is $200/year for EVs, $100 for hybrids.

Maybe I should wait until January and answer $0 for take home pay, $1250/mo for an Ioniq 6 and a Bronco Sport. Really $3600/mo pay + $4700 in retirement money at the moment. Interest at 1.99% on the I6, 2.99 on the Bronco - and CD’s are paying 4.33% at our credit union right now, so even making a lazy deposit makes a little money.

The added registration fee of $103 is just over half of Ohio’s annual $200 fee for BEVs. Ohio charges an additional $100 on any hybrid as well so I’m getting charged $300 extra every year for a 2010 Escape Hybrid and a 2023 Ioniq 6. It cost me $2400 plus $1250 from GM to get a 50A 240V circuit installed in my garage when I had an EUV. This time, Hyundai covered the $560 cost of installing the ChargePoint charger they provided with the Ioniq.