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Happy Noodle Boy posted:We didn't even expand on the poster saying he's hitting less bugs because of aerodynamics (wrong) instead of the complete and almost total collapse of the planets biosphere (correct) 
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Nfcknblvbl posted:For sure. Even with our piss poor city development we could give 75% of suburbanites access to rail lines. The county I live in voted against the city to run a rail line simply by stating they don't want urban thieves coming over. Marin? And now they bitch about how long it takes to drive into the city (San Francisco).
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:GG this thread went from amusing dunking on some dumbassery to two of the more depressing pages of realtalk posts real quick. Welcome to CSPAM! ... I am being informed this is the EV thread, and not CSPAM. So how about that Hummer EV? Which of you is going to buy one?
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VideoGameVet posted:Marin? North-west metro Atlanta.
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Failson posted:Welcome to CSPAM! There is a surprising lack of discussion about upcoming models in here.
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Speleothing posted:There is a surprising lack of discussion about upcoming models in here. no one can buy anything til 2025 at least anyway 
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My MME is home and God does it feel good to drive. Turns out there was factory-goofed wiring in the sun visor. While it was there I got the BlueCruise updates and I gotta say that feels pretty good too. I haven't gone any real distance with it and I need to read some documentation about its behaviors and decision making but it feels like a good middle ground between true "gently caress around on your phone" autonomy and the adaptive cruise control. All in all I'm... Happyish? With the experience. And especially that I didn't have to mail off this lemon law letter I drafted... yet.
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Speleothing posted:There is a surprising lack of discussion about upcoming models in here. priznat posted:no one can buy anything til 2025 at least anyway this if you’re serious about an EV right now and you don’t have $200,000 and you don’t literally work for Rivian and you’re not interested in making all of the QoL tradeoffs that come with owning a LEAF and you got spooked off of the Bolt thanks to the recall and you can afford the cost of an “average” new car then your best option by far is probably a Tesla Model 3 (or a Y if you’re weird and into ugly things) it’s still the benchmark, it’s still the easiest one to get, it’s still the one not subject to dealer bullshit so that’s what everybody here has done. A lot of the people who were considering other cars or holding out either ended up getting Teslas or decided to wait it out with gas. A lot of the people who had Mach Es and LEAFs and i3s and Bolts replaced them with Teslas. So now this thread is kind of a Tesla owner circlejerk lounge for the moment and it turns out that nobody else in AI likes those spaces
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QuarkJets posted:That was true, up until the Mississippi Klan renamed a bunch of poo poo after annexing several states At least somebody read the worldbuilding lore doc.
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Ok Comboomer posted:
Correct. They’re just subject to quarterly price increases and no tax credit. Totally different. Listen, you want an EV it’s actually pretty easy. First off, look up some google spreadsheet of an insane online dude tracking VINs of the factory. Once you see your particular choice coming to your area, hound every dealer for months. Find which one won’t gently caress you on markups and add-ons. You can skip the VIN part and just hound dealers looking for sales that went awry. Then do the trade-in dance only to say gently caress it and go with carvana. Then get your car. Maybe. Who the gently caress knows. The market isn’t real and nothing makes sense anymore.
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This thread has always seemed to have a pretty good spread of EV types. The only time it seems circlejerky is when there’s some Tesla news that draws in people who don’t normally post.
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Ok Comboomer posted:well that’s only because we had a guy who makes that guy look normal Kramer in and accuse the recent NHTSA appointee of “wanting to put Tesla out of business” What? Shameful editor.
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First owner review of the Lightning: https://www.f150lightningforum.com/2022/06/01/initial-driving-impressions-lightning-lariat-owner/quote:
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That's better efficiency than I expected in town to be honest.
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Zero One posted:Love, LOVE the hands free “Blue Cruise,” but still need to play with it a bit more. I like that it truly is hands free so long as you’re looking ahead. I like that it accelerates when changing lanes instead of hesitating like auto pilot does on Tesla. Did they add lane changing to BC? Pretty sure they haven't which means this is just ACC sensing there's no longer a car in front of you and accelerating. Zero One posted:Oh, and this was all in “Normal” mode, too 😂🤣 I bet the Lightning is the same as the Mach, in that Ford doesn't have a chill mode, you still get full power even in whisper mode, so it wouldn't make a difference that he was in normal mode. I'm also not sure "has less effective traction control" is really a positive but if you like tire squeal I guess it could be. Zero One posted:What’s typically a 2.5 hour ride, turned into a 4.5+ hour trek home. lol
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Zero One posted:I didn’t experience the jockeying that @oneguynick experienced…so no nausea here 🤞🏼. This is what that guy was referring to: quote:BlueCruise has the unfortunate issue that it ping pongs along the lane lines. You can tell it is compensating with going too far and then back. At highway speeds, it can be slight nausea-inducing. I have read a few reviews of the tech on other autos Ford produces, and no one mentioned it, so I am not sure if it is something wrong with my truck or if no one else has compared it to other platforms. Pretty sure I've mentioned this extensively here, you shoulda been getting your car info from dead gay comedy forums, buddy.
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bird with big dick posted:Pretty sure I've mentioned this extensively here, you shoulda been getting your car info from dead gay comedy forums, buddy. I don’t have any issues with wandering in BlueCruise so it must a particular set of criteria that not everyone is going to experience.
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bird with big dick posted:Did they add lane changing to BC? Pretty sure they haven't which means this is just ACC sensing there's no longer a car in front of you and accelerating. It doesn't have auto lane change. But this is a behavior the regular Ford ACC has (on my F-150 and older Fusion). As soon as you hit the left turn signal to pass the car will accelerate. Even if you are not clear of the vehicle in front of you yet. Per my owner's manual: quote:
It's a nice feature.
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YOLOsubmarine posted:I don’t have any issues with wandering in BlueCruise so it must a particular set of criteria that not everyone is going to experience. Roads that curve?
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bird with big dick posted:Roads that curve? Maybe? It did fine on a trip from Portland to Seattle and back which is the longest drive we’ve taken since we got it, but that’s interstate all the way. Haven’t tried it on a two lane highway so maybe it’s worse there.
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Holy poo poo big if true: Bolt EV and EUV 2023 MY are getting $6000 price cuts  https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/2023-chevy-bolt-ev-euv-get-major-price-cuts-to-stay-competitive/ar-AAXY48S GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Uh, I guess I know what the second car will be at my home then!
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Now I'm considering getting a EUV instead of a 2EV - $6k is a huge drop
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Huh, pleasantly surprised with that decision. They are out selling the Leaf I thought? And that's the only real competition they have at that price range.
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Kirios posted:Huh, pleasantly surprised with that decision. They are out selling the Leaf I thought? And that's the only real competition they have at that price range. Probably trying to buy back some goodwill after the battery fire fiasco.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Now I'm considering getting a EUV instead of a 2EV - $6k is a huge drop That’s what I was looking at prior to the recall. I really liked it. Only negative about it was the max charging rate but that never would have been a real issue for me since I wasn’t planning on using it for super long drives (since I rarely do those in the first place)
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Yeah I'd probably be taking ~4 trips from San Francisco to SoCal a year, so adding an hour or two so to make semi-frequent stops really doesn't bother me. The main reason I'd want an EUV over an 2EV honestly is the sunroof option, but at the same time apparently it's a known problem that the seal on it has been known to peel back at highway speeds. :/ This is pretty much a sign that this MY Bolt is going to be the last one since they are moving to the Ultimum batteries for future cars. edit: official info from the horse's mouth https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/vehicles/bolt-ev/2023.html edit: other than the price change the only new things seem to be optional new red paint job (old one discontinued), optional illuminated charge port, and new optional floor liners. I'm in. GATOS Y VATOS fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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Ehhhh the Bolt's interior is still hideous to me. I was hoping they would refresh it.
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So the ID Buzz starts at $72,000 and has a range of "over 200 miles". About the price of both our current EVs combined, and comes in about 60% of the range. Neat.
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cruft posted:So the ID Buzz starts at $72,000 and has a range of "over 200 miles". They released info for the U.S. model?
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:They released info for the U.S. model? No, that's the price for the UK model. I don't know what this means for the US model, but if I lived in the UK and wanted an electric car this would get scratched off the list as I shed a little tear.
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cruft posted:No, that's the price for the UK model. How do the UK prices of other vehicles compare to the US prices?
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Kirios posted:Ehhhh the Bolt's interior is still hideous to me. I was hoping they would refresh it. You're not wrong, but it's far better than it was when I test drove one in 2019. Now that was truly cheap & hideous. I assume that they'll still make you buy the top trim to get ACC & lanekeeping, which feels sketchy since those should be basic safety features imo.
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bird with big dick posted:What’s its trap speed One time when I was driving the Vanagon, I T-boned somebody turning left across a 4-lane divided highway. Failure to yield. With their head so close to our grill, the driver is lucky to have lived, even though they'll never walk again. I immediately went out and bought a car with side curtain airbags because of that, sold the wrecked bus to some bus enthusiast from Colorado. We had the same insurance agent, which made things so much easier. The driver told our insurance agent that we were speeding. The insurance agent presented us with this accusation, and I asked them to check what kind of car we were driving. We both had a good laugh: I was lucky if I could get that thing up to 50. With a 82kWh battery and range of "over 200 miles", I imagine the Buzz is going to be on the similar end of EV acceleration as the Vanagon was for a petrol car.
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Those old VW busses had a spare tire and then you as the front impact protection, scary as hell. My parents had a camper conversion when I was a kid and I think the rear seatbelt was just a lap belt too. Also UK car pricing is weird I've done the math before and it made a ford escort sound insane by prices here in canada even doing the conversion, perhaps they just pay more?
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priznat posted:Those old VW busses had a spare tire and then you as the front impact protection, scary as hell. My parents had a camper conversion when I was a kid and I think the rear seatbelt was just a lap belt too. Here's hopin'! The Buzz is probably the only thing that could convince me to replace the Model 3.
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priznat posted:Kia EV9/Ioniq 7 are my most hoped for, I'm gonna put down deposits on both and race em (the deposits not the cars) This reminds me, cruft jr wants to race the Telsa against the Bolt. Is there a way to do this sort of thing responsibly that doesn't involve a 4-hour round trip to the nearest closed circuit track? E: I think jr only cares about 0-speed limit acceleration.
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