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Where I live it's unlikely that the next car won't be an electric. Everyone I know who bought a car the last year bought an electric. My only concern is that I
by Tor3 5y ago
Where I live it's unlikely that the next car won't be an electric. Everyone I know who bought a car the last year bought an electric. My only concern is that I need a practical car, not something like a Tesla. I need ground clearance, for example (lots of snow here). It looks like that won't be a real problem, or at least it's getting there. At worst it would be a chargeable hybrid.
Charging won't be much of a problem. Chargers everywhere, it seems (last summer's holiday was a long car trip through half the country, due to Covid), and I have 400V 3-phase at home (as most do in this town) so I can get a fast charging station.
And we have charging stations at work already.
I imagine the situation is different in the US, longer distances, for example.
- brightball 5y agoThat new electric F150 looks pretty good for that use case.
- benhurmarcel 5y agoIt sounds like he lives in Europe, so the F-150 isn't an option. I don't think it's available, and it would be way too large for any use outside the very rural cases.
- solresol 5y agoThe Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV might suit you. It's a 4WD SUV. You get 50km of battery range before the petrol motor kicks in, so it has a lot of the advantages of electric without paying all that much more for it.
- hawk_ 5y agodoes that mean maintenance costs of both the ICE and electrical parts?
- Brakenshire 5y agoThe ID.4 has 8 inches of ground clearance.
- jnwatson 5y agoFord has an all-electric SUV now.
- theshrike79 5y agoHyundai Kona EV is a good choice, as is the VW ID.4. There's snow here too and I do just fine with a Hyundai Ioniq. Also: fast charging at home is completely useless. A 22kW AC charger (which is around 7-11kW actual for most EVs) will charge pretty much any car from 0-100 overnight. Just a normal plug with 2kW is enough unless you come home with an empty battery every day.