G. David Felt

Having a daughter who took advantage of the Subaru EV Lease deal, it is weird how slow the EV charges. Lucky for me, she works from home and pretty much does not go anywhere mon-thur so her 110V outlet in the garage gives her a full battery pack by Friday. Yet with that said, she has her EV-Go free charging and has tried it but asked me why it still takes 30 to 40 min on the fast charge to get to 80%. That compared to 80% in 18 min for my EV is the comparison as to why I feel they suck at fast charging. Auto companies need to not limit the fast charging for best experiences imho.

I thought the update was a notification of the issue, but it is an actual fix then. Got it. my bad.

Yes, I have a 150,000 btu gas furnace, so adding a heat pump is doable for achieving what I want for the whole house. Having grown up with my gather in the commercial refrigeration business, I have great respect for what the Heat pump can do for a house. One thing I am considering is in this full remodel, I am wanting to go to a smart panel, if I do that, I will also retire my gas stove replaced with Induction stove / convention oven and the dryer / furnace as that would give me individual heat pump units per room for better zone control. Hot water I would keep natural gas as electric water tanks suck for giving really hot water the way we like it.

Be interesting to see what Toyota / Subaru / Lexus ends up doing as I can tell you right now based on observations, Kia / Hyundai / Genesis are beating them all as they move forward to beat Tesla. Everyone is so slow at charging currently except for Kia / Hyundai / Genesis. Interesting observation is that I posted about how I got faster than the 150-kW charging on the 150 kW chargers at EA and it seems this is pretty common as many others report that on those chargers, they get much faster speeds than EA claims. EV6 150 kW Electrify America DC Fast Charging Test | Kia EV Forum (kiaevforums.com) Hyundai and Genesis forums seem to have the same experience and I read earlier today on Reddit about this too. Have not heard of other EVs charging that way, but I know my wife plugged in when we first got our EV9 to a 150kW charger and got her 80% and left before a standard ID4 that was plugged into a 350kW charger was to 50%. Sadly, one of the problems on this is charging etiquette in that 80% is usually best for most drivers unless you're on a road trip. Most EV buyers are clueless to what their top speed is for EVs charging and so they plug into a charger that they cannot take advantage of due to their slow speed. Example is the Chevrolet Bolt, maximum of 50kW charging rate and yet they plug into 150kW or 350kW chargers blocking those that have faster charging speeds. Another example is the ID4, if you buy the Pro edition you get a maximum of 170kW charging from 10% to 80% but if it is either of the two lower levels, you only get 140kW maximum charging from 10% to 80%. This totally causes backup at charging stations when people plug into a charger they cannot take advantage of. As such, this is the problem with the current Toyota / Lexus / Subaru EVs, all are pathetic fast chargers and yet I see them plug into a 350kW charger when their maximum speed is 100kW for 10% to 80%. Hopefully the dealers would inform the buyers, but I doubt it.

When they do sell the remaining made units, I wonder how many will get converted to gas.

OUCH, that sucks. Hopefully they can get it resolved sooner rather than later.

For our remodel, I am planning on adding a heat pump to the house as that will give me the cooling during the summer and it naturally takes out the bone chill of the rain in the fall / winter.

An EV I would never buy even if they sell the remaining produced units for just a few thousand dollars. SKIP Wonder how they will come up with the money to pay for the new replacement pumps.

That should make it easy for you to do it as a DIY project if you're up to it.

Got it, yes a March 7th 2025 Reveal date for the R2 with first half 2026 production in Georgia. Those are a long time away compared to the deals that are starting to happen on current EVs. Are you going to then install a L2 charger at the house?

@ccap41 @Robert Hall It dawned on me that for most places in the US, AC is common in homes, condo's even apartments. Washington state has 25% of homes as of 2022 built with central AC / HeatPump Cooling, and that is mostly only in the last decade. Another 32% use some form of portable AC unit in a segment of their living space. As such during the summer we do not have any means to cool the house when we have a heatwave such as the one we are in now where todays temp is 97, inside my house with a portable AC unit the upstairs is 82. As such, adding a V8 powered auto into the garage would radiate heat into the home with or without my heater and ducting being in the garage. Opening up the garage door to go inside would also allow some heat into the interior space.

WOW, a face only a mother or designer could love. That is one ugly SUV/CUV and the interior looks so dated to me imho.

What about the Kia/Hyundai/Genesis lease deals on their EVs? Or are you thinking to buy?

SS average only 12mpg, with the bulk of driving local except for the drive down to Tacoma or up to Smokey Point, the SS was about performance not fuel efficiency. Premium fuel in WA has been around $5 mark for the last decade here. So yea, went from $400 to $500 and then the last 5 to 6 years was $600 a month.

Hybrid could mean higher maintenance, be interesting to see with all the hybrids coming out how the maintenance cost plays out compared to ICE or BEV.

Anything to help the transition to EV is a good thing imho.

Houses are well insulated but take a hot V8 into your garage and the house will still heat up due to all the heat put off by the engine, it is literally a heat sink that heats up a house when you want to keep it cool. As an owner of a Split-Level home where the heater is in the garage also, even though when I bought this place in 1999 and gutted it to the studes and updated the insulation, sheetrock, etc. remodel to current building standards in 1999, the ducting for the heater is still in the garage and goes to all the bedrooms upstairs as well as throughout the rest of the house. Hot V8 still radiates till it cools off cold and so that heat will transfer via the ducting throughout the houe. EV's never do this, so a benefit to an EV.

EV Love, The Seattle area is in a Heat Advisory with temps for the next 10 days forecasted to be in the high 80's to low 90's. We have a house facing south and no shade so to keep the auto cool you would put it in the garage. The bad part of ICE is the V8 is a huge heat sink that heats up the house when you come home. EV9, you come home go into the garage and no heat, cooler house. Loving this about the EV.

Happy 4th of July Everyone!!!

Thank you @Drew Dowdell for this great news, look forward to seeing the summer excitement of Automania at C&G.

That is the funny part, I was originally thinking of leasing at 20,000 a year as I figured she would have room to spare, but she said with no kids in the house she thinks she would be driving less, so we went with 15,000 miles a year lease. Did not know our son would want her there daily helping out with the grandkids and then on top her side and my side still asking for help, so it is what it is, but hopefully things will slow down now that the kids are out for the summer and the wider range of family seems to be cooling down. If not, Oh well, will have to deal with it when the lease is up. Course if she likes it, I always have the buy out option over paying the mileage, but will see when the time comes.

SS was traded in with 249,000 miles over 15 years or 16,600 miles a year. Seems with Grand Kids my wife is driving way more as right now she is on track to put on 28,800 miles a year or for this year, 19,200 miles. Yup she drives allot.

You found my Brother from another mother.

I also would not have thought about it much, is it very noticable?

Lovely Mix of autos, agree with you what things felt like when we were 20 is so different in our 50's Happy Birthday Robert