G. David Felt

WOW, that SUV could so easily be a Buick too with the headlights / daytime trim lights.

@ccap41 I will say that I actually sat in this and checked it out and I am impressed with the SUV looking Kia Carnival MiniVan. Cool that a Hybrid is available with the 2025 model year. 2025 Kia Carnival: Best-in-Class Cargo & Passenger Room MPV | MSRP & Features | Kia

Are you sure the Hybrid Minivan is a good solution as I keep reading stories on all types of quality issues from the powertrain to interior and now we have this recall with Stellantis telling owners to park outside due to fire risk. Stellantis tells owners of over 24,000 hybrid minivans to park outdoors due to battery fire risk (msn.com)

Leasing looks good on the F150 Lighting

Still not wow'd with the exterior, Interior I like, but I cannot tell if they have physical buttons in addition to the touch screen. The current dash images are clearly computer generated. I like the lack of Chrome on the V edition, the anodized rims I am not sure on yet. Judgement pending...........

Nice if you can find a clean used version. I agree with Drew, put in an AA/AP modern head unit.

Saw my first BMW M series Hybrid plugin SUV at work here today.

I am surprised that GMC is making these owners buy their adapter, but then I guess if you can afford to pay $150,000 for an EV, you can afford the price of the adapter. @Drew Dowdell Does GMC say what the cost of the adapter is?

COST, Apartment owners are very stingy even here in Liberal PNW, there is city mandates now to get apartment owners to install chargers as renters are complaining. Yet up north by my area where I live around Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Edmonds and Mukilteo Apartment owners who have installed L2 chargers rarely have vacancy so yes, it is valuable I believe and of course the Tesla Supercharger stations are packed all the time. Workwise, Seattle has been very progressive in having building owners install chargers and I had at one time posted pictures of all the chargers at my work where 2 years ago, there were 4 and now there is 20 and still they are filled up, so demand is truly there, but resistance to change is still very hard among older folks. With GOP Trump having control of the Rural he has them sold on Toxic Diesel is the life and EVs need to die, so I doubt rural will get chargers without the Feds forcing the install and then we have to deal with the idiots cutting the cables or icing the chargers. I hope there is a future way to have the cables shock the idiots that attempt to cut the cables as it is just stupid.

I find it weird that Ford is willing to tarnish a name with selling AC old tech along with slower charging in the lower end models and you can opt for an HVAC Heat pump system in higher trim and get faster charging if you go awd. I know they want to minimize costs and loses in the early models, but you can also tarnish ones reputation and repeat business. Charging speed is one of the things brought up by the conservative wing nuts all the time about EVs over Gas.

Thank you, appreciate the valuable feedback. Right now working with the architect as we are adding onto the house including a mother-inlaw space that will be on it's own service.

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.