Hi Dave etc,
Coming from motorcycles, I like small (efficient miles per KWH) EVs. I really liked the Smart EV, but with so many anti-sell issues (1/2 warranty, wanting annual $600+ maintenance towed to DC, no service manuals etc), I settled on a 15 Chevy Spark which is nice, has a short turning radius, fairly cheap (paid $14K with 600 miles), when I stopped converting EVs. I bought a larger 13 Leaf a few years ago for my son ($9.3K with 1K miles) but its *too* big for me. The small cheap EVs are the way to go for commuter vehicles, I drive about 70 miles daily, to-from GE Renewable Energy (50 round) and lunch time errands. While larger long range EVs are nice, I cant afford $40K+ for a big battery that I only use occasionally. When the Prius dies I might considered a used one. As Consumer Reports says its best to let someone else pay that first year depreciation. Used EVs a year or two old with low mileage are about ½ price. Message: 10 Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:10:39 -0500 From: "EVDL Administrator" <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Sunday, Sunday, Sunday> 2020 Mach-E EV reservations for 2021 deliveries Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 16 Nov 2019 at 13:16, Mark Abramowitz via EV wrote: > ItTMs not the automakers that are single-minded, itTMs the customers > that are demanding these vehicles. Those are the ones that are selling. The automakers deliberately manufactured that demand with advertising. They did it because SUVs and crossovers are more profitable, and also because SUVs were classified as trucks and therefore less regulated. They're now trying the same trick in Europe, with dismaying success. But the EU isn't the US. Unlike the US, they have carbon goals. Their governments have noticed what the automakers are doing, and how it's affecting their ability to achieve those goals. David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA EVDL Administrator Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20191117/c9c25a7e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
