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Dec 12, 2025 | 12:19 AM

#8341

BayeauxLex

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Originally Posted by LeX2K

Amazing, Tesla and other EV makers should take notes.

I’m sure you will make sure it gets back to elon!!

Dec 12, 2025 | 01:05 AM

#8342

LeX2K

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I'll do my best to try and make Tesla's more like a Prius.

Dec 12, 2025 | 04:31 AM

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I'll do my best to try and make Tesla's more like a Prius.

Reliability is a good place to start.🤪

Dec 12, 2025 | 07:46 AM

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AMIRZA786

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BayeauxLex

Reliability is a good place to start.🤪

I wouldn't buy a Prius if it was the most reliable car that exists. No offense to Prius owners. I'll take my less reliable Tesla's (yet more efficient, technically advanced, faster, smoother) any day of the week 👍

Dec 12, 2025 | 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ChattanoogaPhil

.. Energy prices are relatively cheap in Tennessee. Very few have solar panels on their roofs around here. TVA is majority gas and nuclear, followed by coal, hydro and a bit of solar/wind. I also have a home in California. Energy prices are crazy there.

@ChattanoogaPhil are there any fees on top of the cost of electricity in Tenn or in Cali?

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Dec 12, 2025 | 09:22 AM

#8346

LeX2K

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Originally Posted by BayeauxLex

Reliability is a good place to start.🤪

Tell that to Toyota so their engines and transmissions will stop blowing up.

Dec 12, 2025 | 09:29 AM

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I'm not going to get into Toyota reliability here except to say, if I ever bought another Toyota/Lexus product, it would be a 2021 and older. I think most current/former Lexus owners would agree as it seems a lot here have moved on to other brands and are nostalgic and start raving about the 90's and early to mid 2000 models

Dec 12, 2025 | 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Toys4RJill

@ChattanoogaPhil are there any fees on top of the cost of electricity in Tenn or in Cali?

I think even within Cali, there are different electricity companies and difference rates. At least in NorCal, we separate the generation cost and the transmission cost and then there are a bunch of regulatory fees. We pay upwards of 40 cents per kw and worse in peak hours and months

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Dec 12, 2025 | 11:03 AM

#8349

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Originally Posted by RXSF

we separate the generation cost and the transmission cost and then there are a bunch of regulatory fees.

Any sales tax on the electricity?

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:09 AM

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BayeauxLex

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Tell that to Toyota so their engines and transmissions will stop blowing up.

Prius engines and transmissions blowing up? Because that’s what Toyota model we’re discussing.

speaking of blowing up. Popped in my feed.

Happens all the time with gas Toyotas huh?

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:12 AM

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AMIRZA786

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Funny, this just happened to come up in my feed

It's interesting how we find things on the internet to confirm our biases 👌

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:14 AM

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ChattanoogaPhil

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Originally Posted by Toys4RJill

@ChattanoogaPhil are there any fees on top of the cost of electricity in Tenn or in Cali?

Yes.

EPB charges a monthly $9.81 fee regardless of usage
Base residential rate is 9 pennies per kWh
So-called Fuel surcharge fluctuates but has been + 2 pennies per KwH

California home has PG&E for gas and electric but don't know the breakdown specifics.

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by AMIRZA786

Funny, this just happened to come up in my feed

It's interesting how we find things on the internet to confirm our biases 👌

Good to see they didn’t combine home and auto like the Tesla owner

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:18 AM

#8354

AMIRZA786

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Originally Posted by BayeauxLex

Good to see they didn’t combine home and auto like the Tesla owner

I mean you can keep reaching for straws, OK with me

Dec 12, 2025 | 11:20 AM

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LeX2K

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Originally Posted by BayeauxLex

Prius engines and transmissions blowing up? Because that’s what Toyota model we’re discussing.

speaking of blowing up. Popped in my feed.

https://youtu.be/oPNZHmaRZVs?si=JxYowRgkvTZD7_Lt

Happens all the time with gas Toyotas huh?

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