My kids went to those horrible public schools. Our eldest ended up with a PhD in molecular medicine from a world top 10 university, did post doctorate research at a world top 10 university and is now researching genome-level cancer therapies. The schools here are terrible! And also my last post on this topic.

 

You happen to live in one of the wealthy areas where you are lucky to have good schools. Those good schools don't exist in places like East SJ, Oakland ect. BTW, congrats to your children, hopefully your eldest finds a cure to cancer before I get it 🤣

On to another topic....it's now been 4 years since I leased our first EV (2020 Hyundai Ioniq EV), and it's been two years since we've almost jumped into full EV ownership. With a Polestar, Hyundai Ioniq 5, and a Model Y, I'm now heading into veteran territory. How has it been? Well, the first couple of years was a little rough. The 2020 Ioniq EV only had a range of 150 miles, so it was mostly a commuter for my wife to and from work, as well as travel around the Bay Area. I learned a lot about EV's from that car, that they are smooth, quiet and extremely efficient. Adding the Polestar gave me more range, the performance I was looking for, and again efficiency. The first year I also used it to travel, but found that I had to do some planning due to less than adequate charging infrastructure (non Tesla).

The Model Y pretty much changed everything for me. I treat it exactly like a regular car, and have used it extensively to travel due to its robust charging infrastructure both on travel corridors as well as in SoCal.

For me personally, the move to EV's has been highly rewarding. We charge them at home, and when we travel long distances (200 miles or more) we use the Y. They need very little maint, and are extremely quiet and efficient. They give me the performance I want when I need it, with practically no penalty. Because of my ability to charge them at home and Fast charge them on the road when needed, I have no desire personally to ever go back to a gas car, at least for our daily drivers.

For those that are skeptical of EV's, I can only ask that you at least test drive one. I have no desire to push my love of EV's on anyone as it's a personal choice, but at least try it before you hate it

 

congrats to you are your kids. happy you live the american dream in a hugely affluent bubble. california also has 1/3 of all the homeless folks in our great nation. source despite all the problems though, california is still an innovation economy, with vast venture capital making just about anything possible.

including tesla, the massive success story which fueled [sic] this forum.

 

Well, at risk of getting off topic, some of the reasons we might just have more homeless people are because other states send homeless people here, when homeless people arrive here we tend to take better care of them than most, and our big cities generally don't get life-threateningly cold in winter taking at least one of the difficult issues homeless people have to address largely off the table. If I were to ever find myself in that unfortunate situation I'd probably want to be here too.

 

If I was ever God forbid homeless, I'd head straight for Venice Beach

 

Knock off the homelessness and state debate

Acceptable: I pay x taxes in y state and it sucks
Unacceptable: I don't like that my non auto taxes go towards z

 

good article on ideas to stop people hogging public chargers. won't work at places like airports though.

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/15/ele...tations-limits

 

I think that makes sense.

As for airports there’s a difference between chargers when vehicles are parked for a purpose and a high speed charger where people are expected to come in only to charge and then leave. Only solution for parking lots with bonus charging and airports is more chargers. Dulles airport here has chargers in like 50% of their spaces and they don’t specify specific spaces for EVs and non EVs. People just park where they want and the cords for all the chargers are really long.

 

For airports specifically, I expect we'll eventually reach a state where some of the spots in the expensive short-term parking are marked EV only and have DCFC. Then the majority of the remaining spots in most/all of the lots could just have a really basic level 1 or 2 charger. If you're going to be parked there for a week anyway, it doesn't matter how long it takes to charge.

 

i can see level 1/2 charging in many of the spots at airports in the future so there will be no issue.

and good idea geko for high speed dcfc in short term.

 

 

Wow! Costco has all we need to live off grid for cheap.

 

The description is very poorly worded. What that actually means is that the bundle comes with a J1772 adapter:



So you can use a Level 2 EV charger to juice up the Delta Pro in about an hour and 40 minutes:

 

The opportunity at airports (or other long term parking) is effectively valet-type parking where you drop off, let the vendor manage everything behind the scenes while you are away, and then have the car returned to you with your requested level of charge.

 

Love the license plate 😄