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You get a cybertruck so your keyboard matches. Duh.
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What would be the best equivalent for a 2019 bolt (small/hatchback)? I like my car just fine but the whole fire battery thing makes me feel like I should try for either an MRSP swap or a buyback. Ideally I'd like a 360 camera and adaptive cruise control. Oh yeah and I'm in the USA so the id.3 isn't an option.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:28
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:the kona and niro are essentially small hatchbacks with CUV styling Yeah I'd consider those or just a new Bolt. I'm probably going to try for a new Bolt as I suspect an MRSP swap is easier than a buyback. Alternatively I'm lazy and am very likely to just say gently caress it and wait for them to fix the battery.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:12
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Nitrousoxide posted:How much long range traveling do you do? All of the suggested ones have double the speed fast charging capabilities of the bolt. The bolt's 50kw DCFC capabilities are really it's main downside, aside from, you know, the fire thing. None, so not a concern. It's good to know though.
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Jul 29, 2021 22:33
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Nitrousoxide posted:Oh, something you might want to consider as well, if you're a costco member, is they have an additional 1-3k off the Bolt EV on top of other manufacture and dealer deals. I saw that but it ends soon and I'm not sure you can get deals when doing an MSRP swap. I'm waiting to see if someone in my state is successful before I call.
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Jul 30, 2021 03:20
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Checked out the EUV today. Was pretty dang neat if only to see it in person Shock green/yellow is the only acceptable Bolt color.
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Aug 12, 2021 17:00
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Wayne Knight posted:https://jalopnik.com/gm-now-says-that-every-bolt-and-bolt-euv-worldwide-will-1847529693 2019, 2,634 miles Shock green, premier trim. Some sort of tear slinging grease into my tire (tire guy mentioned it and I don't remember exactly what he said and am too lazy to grab my phone and check what I wrote down) , and some bumper damage from a garbage bin that totally snuck up on me. Let's start the bidding at 30k.
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Aug 21, 2021 02:10
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Guido Merkens posted:2,634 mi in 2+ years? Yeah I'm a loser who stays at home most of the time with 4 others who own cars, so yeah mine doesn't see much use. I really shouldn't own it but it's not like that money would be better used. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 04:06 on Aug 25, 2021 |
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Aug 25, 2021 04:04
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Jimong5 posted:Even "appliance" EVs like the Volt/Bolt have pretty good punch overtaking at highway speeds because they don't have to worry about a downshift. Absolutely. Like it's fine if you find high acceleration fun, most people seem to but let's not pretend after a certain point it's still a safety feature. People don't need Tesla acceleration.
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Aug 25, 2021 17:49
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QuarkJets posted:How many garages don't ever get freezing cold or blisteringly hot? Insulation is kind of super rad.
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Sep 7, 2021 07:04
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Indiana_Krom posted:I actually looked up what GM is saying to do while people wait for their vehicle to get its battery replaced and like the most restrictive thing is that people should park theirs outside and don't charge it indoors overnight, otherwise their recommendations are just ordinary stuff everyone with an EV should already be doing. Like "set your charge limit to 90%" "charge frequently" "don't deep discharge the battery". They are not saying people should avoid driving it at all, seems like you can use it pretty much normally. I think someone wanting to return the car because GM is eventually going to give them a free new battery is being unreasonable. I think having your customers be unable to use the car as sold for however long it takes to replace battery modules is unreasonable. Especially considering how GM feels like they've dragged their heels on the whole battery module replacement thing. I also think anyone defending GM here can gently caress off with that anti consumer crap. Don't build garbage (yes I know mistakes happen, but batteries catching fire is one that shouldn't) don't try to cut corners with your fix to save money and don't jerk people around with state by state MRSP swaps/buy backs. I have no idea if I'd have any luck trying to get a buyback/msrp swap and that's deliberate so I didn't even try. I don't need a fully functioning car, but others rely on it. If a park my car outside and I get rodents or damage from trees etc. do you think GM will do anything? Did you know apparently the wiring has a coating that mice like (this might not be exactly right I don't remember the details I'm too lazy to look it up)? My last car had a mouse or maybe rat problem (probably because I left it outside the winter and rarely drove it) and ideally I'd like that to not happen with this one. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Sep 12, 2021 |
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Sep 12, 2021 18:23
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CannonFodder posted:Shipping a car 1200 miles would be done by a car hauler / hot shot hauler. That's done pretty often with used cars. I see plenty of Carmax and Carvana mobile parking lots and I see EVs on them a few times, but I also see hot shot haulers carrying cars around and I know that's an option. I have no idea what the price is on a move like that, especially such a long one way trip with no guaranteed return trip or even a triangle trip. I say this as a Shock green/yellow Bolt owner: Americans do not want bright colors. I mean some do but there's a reason companies rarely offer anything interesting. You might be able to get a red or blue that's not too dark but otherwise it's just shades of grey, beige, white and black. https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/shopping/configurator?make=Chevrolet&model=Bolt%20EV&radius=250&zipCode=48362 blue tinted silver, white, black, grey, silver. red, blue.
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Jan 24, 2022 18:46
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cruft posted:My battery is still hosed. It's a 2019, which everyone suspects will be the first wave of replacements. I got mine replaced in December. You might want to try contacting a dealership.
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Feb 17, 2022 00:31
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:You know where Muskchat goes pls. No, gently caress that. This isn't the thread for an ethical capitalism debate, but a mention of Elon posting a pro Hitler meme? Yup it belongs here in the thread where people might be buying an electric car and want to be informed. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Feb 19, 2022 |
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Feb 18, 2022 22:09
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Indiana_Krom posted:Don't let lovely politics limit your options. Not that I don't frequently wish Musk would shut the gently caress up, but ultimately you can't really buy anything or go anywhere without directly or indirectly supporting douche CEOs. The other automaker CEOs are also jerks, but they are quiet about it thanks to PR and marketing departments keeping their traps shut. Now even if I agreed all sides are equally evil which I don't, having a company that knows not to post Nazi memes seems like a bare minimum bar of competency for a company that makes dangerous machines that people risk their lives in (or really any company.) I think this attitude is loving lazy and selfish and while this isn't the thread for this conversation I am sick of people trying to abdicate any moral responsibility as a consumer so they don't have to make any "sacrifice" (not buying/feeling slightly worse about buying the car they want, or game, or whatever). Morality isn't just "politics". Like sure they are connected but you don't just get to say oh that's just politics and ignore it. I mean I guess you do because you did but whatever. Whelp I'm a sucker for derails where everything is connected and I just have to let people know the proper way to think. I'll stop now. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Feb 19, 2022 |
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Feb 19, 2022 19:27
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Ok Comboomer posted:“a moderately quick Volvo ought to be enough for anybody” Correct. Cars are dangerous tools and treating them as fun toys (which they absolutely can be) on public roads is varying degrees of irresponsible. Yeah bummer gotta go fast.
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Feb 28, 2022 01:39
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Deteriorata posted:Which are that size because they're the width of two horses side by side. Cars should be measured in horsewidth.
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Feb 28, 2022 03:45
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:What on earth are you all going on about now....? I'm going to bet the answer is ebike laws. It's weird though because I don't think I've heard of one having limits when you aren't using the motor.
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Feb 28, 2022 19:01
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bitprophet posted:I feel quite lucky that the Polestar 2 ended up being my standout favorite anyways, because the other reason I pulled the trigger on one was Polestar's no price haggling and no dealer bullshit. Yea I'll have to interact briefly with a (well liked) local Volvo place for service and possibly payment (next month? ship it might be on just went through the Panama Canal I think it just depends on the dealer and how likely they feel that you're going screw them over. Mini dealer was fine with a personal check, Chevrolet was not. Which sucked because the wire transfer took longer than I had thought it would and was stuck wandering around the Chevrolet dealer.
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Mar 21, 2022 00:12
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), but there's not much they can do to jerk me around.
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Sonic Dude posted:The average new car in the US is something like $47k now. It’s definitely a problem for the economy that most people would struggle to — or just can’t — afford that, and it’s a problem for EVs that they trend above that average in most cases. That doesn’t mean that $42-50k is particularly crazy for a new car, EV or not. Let them eat chili dogs.
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Jun 9, 2022 05:48
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cruft posted:Just be sure whatever you buy is painted blue, op. Wrong. https://www.google.com/search?q=bol...h=1266&dpr=1.13
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Aug 24, 2022 17:54
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Elviscat posted:That's a really cool blue, Bolt needs an exciting color like that to look good, just looks like an extra-ugly economy car. https://www.google.com/search?q=bol...h=1140&dpr=1.25 Nothing else counts as exciting.
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Oct 12, 2022 18:53
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Snowmankilla posted:Sure? But take this energy and put it towards trucks that weigh 4 tons dropping kids off at school. I’m less worried about a nerd in a Tesla then a suburban mom/dad on their phone in some tank. They both suck. Every once in awhile I look at a new EV and go "hmmm I hope this isn't bigger than my bolt" and low and behold they are. Always. The Bolt isn't even that small. It's not that there aren't legitimate reasons to need a bigger car, it's just it's very hard to convince me you need that big rear end pickup. Then you have lovely companies like "oh people don't want smaller cars" yeah you fuckers you've spent a gently caress ton of money convincing men that it's "manly" to own a huge truck that they do not need.
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Nov 23, 2022 22:21
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Indiana_Krom posted:No, in North America only Tesla superchargers are decently reliable. The EA network is generally treated precisely like what it is: VW paying a one and done fine for dieselgate. Really all the CCS networks in the US are iffy at best, it isn't too hard to find a working charger on one if you are in a dense enough area (like California) but none of them are particularly good on maintenance. It is why I think Tesla still has a small chance to make NACS the universal standard in North America, if there are superchargers everywhere that support any vehicle with a NACS port, then the standard could beat CCS just because superchargers actually work more than 50% of the time. I think HD DVDs have a small chance to be the North American standard.
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Nov 27, 2022 17:22
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I'd like automation to exist but the barrier is going to be "way better than self driving also it has to work with people self driving and no we won't be increasing our infrastructure costs by changing anything ". Which while understandable does make things harder.
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Nov 28, 2022 22:54
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bird with big dick posted:I’m winning it and then I’m gonna do an engine swap with my Tesla. THEY AREN'T ENGINES THEY'RE MOTORS. Pretty sure I'm right on this.
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Dec 10, 2022 07:34
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I expect my car to be decently built, and the face of the company to not post transphobic poo poo on twitter. A high bar I suppose but I'm sure I can find some companies that clear it. I saw a mini today in Zesty Yellow and was disappointed to find out that they don't make the electric one in that color. Now I was unlikely to buy it but I totally would have tried to talk myself into it (only to be like ehhhh that range isn't going to be great in the winter). Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 04:11 on Jan 14, 2023 |
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Jan 14, 2023 04:05
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Teslas are cheap sports cars with technology for people who probably shouldn't be driving something with so much power.
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Jan 15, 2023 00:34
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Throwing EV battery platforms into lakes and oceans or burning them in bonfires and partying might be more apt. Which I assume we all do right? Like those parties are epic. Epic to the max.
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Jan 16, 2023 23:30
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What people care about is that the number being marketed to them is bigger then what other people have, and absolutely is bigger than there imagined worse case needs. Do they need it? No. Will they miss it? No. Do they get convinced that they need it? Absolutely. It doesn't really even matter what it is; range, acceleration, pixel density, frame rate, polling rate, whatever.
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Jan 20, 2023 01:54
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Aptera is rad. The solar panels on it are pretty dumb.
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Jan 23, 2023 22:26
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Elviscat posted:The Aptera is the worst possible compromise between a motorcycle and a car, the battery is twice the size of that Energica motorcycle, poorly protected by a composite frame with almost no crash protection, low visibility but it won't have the extra training requirements for a motorcycle (or more likely it will in states that require such things, but it will be 100% unenforced, especially since only wealthy white people will drive them). Sure but it's still rad. We should probably stop making huge vehicles that people don't need and make smaller efficient vehicles instead. That of course isn't going to happen. Less vehicles by improving rail would probably be a good idea too. Anyway I got a recall for my bolt, I think that makes it the third one. First one battery, second one software issue or something, third one something about the seatbelt tensioner causing fire in some crashes Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Jan 24, 2023 02:19
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Elviscat posted:It's called a hatchback, you have one, it costs the same as Aptera says (lol) their entry model will for the same range, it has usable space, four wheels, the possibility of you and your passengers surviving a low speed collision, everything you could want! Gussy up scooter sounds neat. Shame about all the people who think they need a huge vehicle. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jan 24, 2023 |
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Jan 24, 2023 07:11
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Indiana_Krom posted:Did someone say something about a tesla in snow? I know about teslas in snow: My favorite winter Tesla story is when my brother's passenger window shattered when he closed the drivers door. Wait no him being charged for it when it was definitely in warranty is the best part.
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Jan 28, 2023 01:00
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Like a $5-8k 100 mile EV sounds reasonable. But anything over that cost for that range is laughable. There's more to cars than a big battery. It isn't laughable.
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Jan 31, 2023 02:23
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EVS ARE DUMB TOYS FOR SOY CUCKS UNTIL THEY HAVE 500 RANGE, GO 0-60 IN 3.5 SECONDS, CAN PULL 3 ELEPHANTS , IN THE WINTER AND GIVE ME A BLOWJOB. I think smaller efficient evs are a good thing and people should be more open to buying them.
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Jan 31, 2023 08:13
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Kirios posted:Are y'all not realizing the MX-30 is 35k or something? Yes a smaller cheaper EV would be fantastic to have. There's nothing even in the sub 25k range, let alone sub 20k. You could easily justify 100 mile range in those brackets. I think what you're not realizing is people aren't necessarily talking about the mx-30. I am fine with a hypothetical car that's nice enough being 100 range, and 35k as there's more to a car than having a big battery.
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Jan 31, 2023 19:28
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Tiny Timbs posted:“100 mile grocery getter” is $10k territory unless it literally does drive itself 1. It's 2023 so lol at 10k. 2. Some people live in places dense enough that they can get to many places besides a grocery store within 50 miles one way. Winter+ battery degradation let's say 25. 25 isn't great but not everywhere has cold winters.
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Jan 31, 2023 20:06
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Tiny Timbs posted:Don’t care, for a car that incapable that’s what I’d pay for what it actually does Well no product can survive being unappealing to Timy Timbs.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Yes exactly. I don’t know why anyone would argue on Mazda’s behalf for this, even they knew this thing was unmarketable. I'm pretty sure no one here is, they are talking in generalities and not about the specific car that was mentioned.
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