Originally Posted by geko29

If you leave your car unlocked, they can do all sorts of unsavory things to the inside as well as outside. If you don't, the cable is locked to your charging port and they would need your key.

Originally Posted by mmarshall

Yes, I agree that most EV motors are probably smoother than virtually any ICE, although, if you remember, Lexus used to do commercials with wine-glasses balanced on the hood. And a couple of the old Buick Dynaflow and Super Turbine automatic transmissions from the 50s and 60s, because they were mostly fluid-drive with impellers, could rival the EV transmissions I've sampled in smoothness (great care was taken by the engineers to make them smooth), but they were inefficient.

Even if I had EV-rechargers where I lived (which I don't) there are a lot of small kids and teenagers living in my condo-development, often with nothing better to do after school, that would get their kicks from unplugging cords from vehicles that are charging....probably the same crowd that likes to key paint jobs or let air out of tires.

I agree with you on the Genesis nameplate...I have a high opinion of it. As you remember, when I got my Lacrosse, I considered a Genesis G80 AWD as probably the second choice....although it would have cost several thousand dollars more. I admit...I got the Lacrosse mostly because I liked my local dealership, had had a big Buick Electra 225 in college many years ago that I absolutely loved (with that ultra-smooth Super-Turbine-400 transmission I described above), and more or less wanted to relive that experience. Ironically, the new 9-speed transmission in the Lacrosse was one of the few things on it that had issues.