My wife and I's old car was getting super unreliable so we had to replace it. Our new car was delivered today and it's so nice! We got a 2025 Nissan Leaf. It's wild because it is technically a used car but it's a 2025 and had less than 3000 miles on it. I'm happy we were able to find this one as it was relatively cheap and I am currently unemployed but the payments on the new car are basically the same as our old one. This is the first time I've ever driven a fully electric car. One pedal driving is trippy but I was surprised how easy it was to adjust. I think I'm really gonna enjoy this thing. And as a bonus I didn't need to purchase from a Nazis to get a good electric car!
#ElectricVehicle #NissanLeaf #EV

Driving my daughter's ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) Subaru was ... different. Besides the fact that it is way noisier and slower in acceleration, the hardest thing to get used to was the lack of engine braking! Let off the accelerator, and it just keeps going! I sorely missed my regen braking on my #EV6. I have turned it to Auto Max. It isn't quite one-pedal driving (i-Drive in #Kia), but it is close. And that whole business about turning off the engine at stoplights!

Some Tesla owners in B.C. embarrassed by company's CEO amid charged political climate
The president of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association says he wants people to know that for most drivers, getting behind the wheel of a Tesla isn't a political statement.
#tesla #politics #electricvehicle #BC #Vancouver #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-tesla-owners-1.7460386?cmp=rss

And who said electric cars are useless?! Due to a storm, we have had no power at home for 9 hours. I've reminded my other half that the car is a big battery, so go plug your mobile phone in for a charge

#Trump at the #WorldEconomicForum in #Davos

#Oil, #Deregulation, #ClimateCrisis

"My administration has also begun the largest deregulation campaign in history."

"I terminated the ridiculous & incredibly wasteful Green New Deal. I call it the Green New Scam, withdrew from the one-sided #ParisClimateAccord, & ended the insane & costly #ElectricVehicle mandate."

"The US has the largest amount of oil & gas of any country on Earth, & we're going to use it."

Costco teams up with Electrify America to bring 350 kW chargers to select locations. Charge up while you shop!

https://evfuture.io/shop-save-and-charge-costcos-big-move-into-ev-charging/

Promising news on #electricvehicle #battery life:

https://www.wired.com/story/electric-cars-could-last-much-longer-than-most-think/

A substantial chunk of microplastic pollution comes from wear of vehicle tyres.

The amount increases with vehicle weight; so electric vehicles with heavy batteries will makes this worse.

Maybe replacement of all internal combustion engines with electric powered motors is not the solution...

https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-30-of-microplastics-come-from-a-hugely-overlooked-source

We've just finished a livestream with Nate from Juice-Rescue, and Stacey Higginbotham from Consumer Reports discussing the sudden, unacceptable pulling of support from JuiceBox customers by EnelX in the USA and Canada.

The project needs YOUR help:

You can see the livestream here:

https://youtube.com/live/8ebay4eHZgU

Consumer Reports has opened up a Google Form for interested parties who would like to co-sign the letter to the FTC on the matter: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dPRfAo3IuLJrLFixFxdBz6jRi1BYC_opSKJ5HiHMWUw/viewform?edit_requested=true

The letter itself is visible here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vOXDvo8AZWHUOgV7Qk60n_EQ1rl96y4ZpzmJEttEyQM/edit?tab=t.0

I don’t normally get range anxiety but this was squeaky bum time

I drive a minimum of 200 miles per week to/from work (). My electric car just hit 50k miles.

The average car mpg is 24.4 mpg. My mileage equates to 2,049 gallons of gas.

The average cost of 1 gallon of fuel between 2021-2023 was $3.49.

Based on this, it would have cost me $7,151 on gas.

I charge for free at work. I charge at home or on-the-go 1-2 times per month. Driving electric has been great for my wallet.

"The Eastside Community Network (ECN) in Detroit is offering residents an affordable electric vehicle (EV) rental service as part of a broader initiative to enhance mobility in underserved areas."

https://planetdetroit.org/2024/08/electric-vehicles-rental/

For folk in #Scotland that are looking at electrified transport

The loans are back open: https://energysavingtrust.org.uk/grants-and-loans/used-electric-vehicle-loan/

• electric mopeds costing £5,000 or less are eligible for up to £5,000

• electric motorcycles costing £5,000 or less are eligible for up to £5,000

• electric cars costing £25,000 or less are eligible for up to £25,000

• electric vans costing £25,000 or less are eligible for up to £25,000

This sounds objectively bad.
Like their committee decided the best way to make their EV sound like a Dodge was to record a Dodge and add an 'EV whine that's kinda like a supercharger whine'.
It's also not reactive to what the car's doing, as seen in the donuts.

It's like a low-budget racing game's car noise.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/heres-what-the-electric-dodge-chargers-fratzonic-exhaust-sounds-like/

We need to talk about the classism of #Moderate #liberals.

Oh, the moderate liberal. There is a profound lack of empathy amongst what we would call the mainstream of the #DemocraticParty.

So, here's the thing. You want everyone to have an #EV. Well, an #ElectricVehicle requires charging. That pretty much requires a garage.

What about #solar? Well, if you are renting, you can't install solar panels. Nor does the #landlord have any incentives to ever install them.

Banning #plastic bags? A tax on poor people who traditionally got multiple uses out of every single plastic grocery bag.

Time and time again you see the #Democratic party, often along with #MiddleClass and #UpperClass #leftists and #progressives argue in favor of policies without a hint of empathy for the lived day to day reality of people who are #poor, #InnerCity or #rural.

Can you really be surprised that #Newsom decided to attack #homeless encampments? In his worldview, homelessness is a defect of the system, not an inherent product of it.

Fewer roads, fewer cars. Sure, but it sounds frightening when you have to drive to a dockyard that's two miles from a transit station.

The reason that a lot of #poor people in the US view the #Democrats as traitors is because they have traditionally _been_ class traitors.

The loudest progressive voices are usually the most privileged voices. So, they just sound like more class traitors without a moment of reflection on the actual lives of actual working people.