You are going to love EVs! Imagine something the size of your HRV, with twice the horsepower and three times the torque. The tires won’t stand a chance.
At 12,000 miles per year, you are a perfect candidate for an EV. For some hard numbers, last year (2022) I drove 11,000 miles and spent $325 charging at home, and another $150 at superchargers on road trips. Guessing an HRV gets about 32 MPG, and a search says the average gas price in 2022 was $3.95/gallon, so about $1300 to do the same driving in an HRV.
Saving $800 is nice, but also not really life changing. Even if you throw in another $100 for the two oil changes the gas car would have had, it is a good sized savings, but not shockingly so. So maybe $1000 per year savings for the life of the car? You might spend that on tires, though.
In my experience, that’s not so odd because the tires that come on the car are usually not top-of-the-line tires. Yes, the kind of driving you do, mileage, and the types of road surfaces you drive on matter. But so does the quality of the original tire. Be sure to look online for recommendations before you buy.
I’ve not driven one, but is the HR-V a hoot to drive? Seems that the Civic Si would be the choice in that price range. Still would go through the tires though.
You’re right about the quality of ties, and I will buy the best. I punked out yesterday and didn’t go, but we have veteran’s day off, and that is before our snow season begins. I’ll definitely go then.
add: better controller tech (at least 2-3 gen. more advanced - lower consumption) - potentially larger battery, way better/more polished User Interface, etc…
We are currently on a steep upward incline in terms of learning-curve and tech-advancement …
kindalike smartphones in their 3rd or 4th generation … the great screens, large batteries and really good camara are just being ushered in (figuratively speaking).
My wife’s car is the first model year HRV and I get to drive it occasionally. Kind of loud, slow acceleration, and you have to like plastic. At least it has some good cargo space and is easy to maneuver. And yes, we replaced the tires after about 18 months and less than 10,000 miles.
Excluding Tesla, the fuel type loyalty rate for mainstream brand EV households is 52.1% this year through July, according to the latest S&P Global Mobility loyalty analysis.
That’s staying loyal to electric vehicles, regardless of which brand they purchased next (even if they moved on to a Tesla).
While a part of this is the lack of recharging places, this suggests that EVs are not going to completely take over.
I’d happily have two EVs if they met all our family’s transportation needs. But a mix of EV and ICE/Hybrid vehicles allows us to do everything we need (we don’t have an EV currently but our next car will be one). If the charging infrastructure improves and/or range of EVs improve we would have no problems being an all EV family. I think we’re just in a transitional period.
Even 50% is a pretty good number. It means that about half of all people are ready to be a pure EV household. But many of the remainder are likely to be a dual EV/ICE household, which is still much better than pure ICE. If most households have two cars, and they’ve just bought an EV, we should expect that their next car would be the alternate ICE car–it doesn’t imply that they’re unhappy with the EV, just that it doesn’t cover 100% of their needs. That could mean ~75% overall EV share.
That 75% of Tesla customers are loyal might imply that access to the Supercharger network (as virtually all EVs will have starting in 2024-ish) can boost the 50% even further (though it depends on their exact reasons).
I was window-shopping for cars, and realized “Hey, what am I doing? I’m a bike guy…”
I was crunching the numbers on Hybrid vs EV, and realized that in the last six months I’ve used a car less than a dozen times. Mostly short trips to the hardware store for stuff too big for panniers… though I did bungie some 8’ lumber on the bike (from handlebars to the rack then hanging out another 4’…).
For longer trips I’ve lucked out, and could take a bus (six trips to music festivals this summer!). So the effects of me driving my mom’s gasaholic Oldsmobile or buying a Prius or Polestar isn’t enough to worry about.
Tom Scott goes for a ride in a car that can do 0-60 mph (0-100 kph) in under a second.
It’s an electric car specially designed by engineering students to set this record, and uses a fan to create enough downforce so that all the power can be put through the wheels without wheelspin.
He says the car can pull 3.8 Gs. He did it in 1.4 seconds, slower than the world record they set of 0.956 with a lighter driver, but faster than the previous record they just beat, which was 1.46.
Undoubtedly, someone here can do the math to calculate how many Gs he pulled in his run.
World record for an electric car… An interesting thing is that this is repeatable whereas a top fuel dragster needs a full rebuild after each run–the clutches friction weld themselves among other things. The EV? Plug it in and warm the tires up with the blankets. Easy peasy.
