Also, try cycling. It will warm you up, keep you fit and save on fuel.
Not practical in SoCal either. While the weather is nice the city designers didn't/don't care about cyclists. Ok they are getting a lot better. California is a 4/5/6 lane highway state within the large cities. Today I'll take 2 major interstate highways just to go 25 miles. On bike that'd be a heck of a trip.
Cycling 100kms a day is a bit beyond me.... and not safe when icy! Def
Only doing 10 or 20km initially won't get him to work.
I think I'm almost there. With the latest gas prices hitting $1.80/L here I think I'm going to have to pull the trigger on an electric car. I'm looking very seriously at the Chevrolet Bolt EUV.It is depressing that the amount I am spending on gas is more than the cost of a whole new car- I'm currently feeding the Jeep about $75 every other day. Figure $75 every other day, times 26 working days each month (13 days x $75) works out to roughly $975/mth, my mileage payments work out to about $800/mth and payments on an electric car will be about $600/mth.I'm really going to miss my Jeep though....Def
That looks expensive. My mom loved her big sedans. She drove Lincolns. Big land yachts.
I think I'm almost there.
It has only taken four years since you started this thread.
Just prefacing by saying I have no own experience with owning hybrid cars (nor full electrics), I just read that modern electrics have battery conditioning circuits that adapt the battery temperature during charging, e.g. by heating it in cold temperatures, so that may no longer be such a hindrance for their use in e.g. Canada.The aspect of physical sturdiness of a car is valid. Electric cars designed as such used to tend to be built lighter than conventional ones to extend range. On the other hand battery tech appears to be on the cusp of some major advances, so this may not be as strict a constraint in future. I'd be interested to see how e.g. a Rivian turns out to be once it appears in numbers.