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When this picture was taken the driver door was open. I really didn't notice any glare at all in driving.
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Nicely appointed (adding the heat pump, the "Climate Package" (basically rear heated seats) and the Advance Package (Adaptive Cruise Control, 360 camera, etc) I come out list right at $58K. The Recharge is closer to the GT in power, so really you are getting more car for the money with the Recharge. The range falls a bit short on the Recharge though at 208 miles, a trade-off for the horsepower I suppose.
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Personally, in this particular class, the one I really prefer is the Jag iPace but by the time I get it configured its an $80K+ car!
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Also Mach E can’t tow vs Recharge can. I was totally expecting Mach E to able to tow at least 1,000. Even Kona EV or Niro EV able to tow. Last edited by ichitaka05; 02-10-2021 at 10:15 AM. |
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But what might look gee-wizzy neato on the showroom floor might not translate as well into the real world. I might be the only Luddite curmudgeon on this, but for me putting certain key functions exclusively into a touch screen, like heater/A/C and radio controls, is an absolute deal-breaker. Here in New England, it gets cold in the winter. We wear gloves when we drive. It's awfully hard to use a touch screen wearing gloves (and no, those fancy-shmancy haptic touch gloves aren't anywhere near as warm as the real L.L. Bean deal and don't do it for me). I'll get on my soapbox once again and preach about how touch screens are a safety hazard. I can adjust mechanical knobs by feel, heater and radio, without taking my eyes off the road. It's hard to do that with a touch screen while hurtling down the road at 100 feet/second (at least for me it is). A lot can happen in the few seconds you have to take your eyes off the road to hunt for the right spot to poke on a touch screen. I was thinking about a new Legacy for a while, as a possible more 'practical' replacement for my WRX as a daily driver. It was enough of a setback and gutpunch when Subaru replaced the unique naturally-aspirated 3.6 flat-6 engine with yet another ubiquitous bland 2.4 turbo-4. But I could have lived with the diminished personality of the new engine in exchange for such mundane things such as better fuel economy. But putting the heater controls exclusively in the touch-screen was an absolute non-starter. Shame on Subaru. Then there's this: https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/...takes-75238906 Last edited by AnalogMan; 02-10-2021 at 03:54 PM. |
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I could get used to it, but as you say, there are distinct advantages to actual buttons and knobs. At least it had a real volume knob.
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He's a hard-core, very old-school gearhead. Builds hotrods for the fun of it. He's probably built over 200 amazingly crafted machines in his life (I used to help out in his garage pre-pandemic). His wife is a staunch environmentalist, and insisted he get an electric car as his ’transportation’ (to counter-balance all the gas-guzzling V8's in his hot rods). So, he got a Leaf, with the biggest battery available. They advertise it as having a ‘250 mile range’. When it’s fully charged the range gauge usually shows around 260-264 miles. Last winter, they needed to take a trip, about 150 miles each way, for his wife to attend to some business They thought, no problem, 250 mile range should make 150 miles easy. He’d charge it at a Nissan dealer while she took care of business, and then back home. In a gas car it’s about 3 hours each way. They thought it would be the same, 3 hours each way, plus 1 hour for her business. Leave at 8 am, home by 3 pm. Their experience was different. The reality of batteries is that range depends on a lot of things. Cold weather reduces range. Using heat (or air conditioning) reduces range. Accelerating hard reduces range. Steady highway driving at high speed (with no regenerative braking) results in lower range. The advertised ‘range’ seems similar to the EPA mileage ratings for gas cars, with a system gamed to get numbers that are sometimes unattainably high. On the day they went, it was the trifecta of being in the winter (cold = reduced range), they used the heat so they wouldn’t freeze to death (= reduced range), and it was all highway driving, no regenerative braking (= more reduced range). The ‘advertised’ range of 250 miles, and the range gauge that showed 260-ish miles when they left, translated into a real-world range of about 110 miles. Yep. From 250 miles claimed, to 110 miles in reality. He was panicking as they drove, because the range gauge was dropping 2 or 3 miles for each mile they drove. By the time the range gauge showed 20 miles left - and they were still 60 miles away - he was in total meltdown (but his wife was whining at him the whole time about not wanting to be late, didn’t want to stop, etc. etc. etc.). Long story short, he ended up stopping to charge (or attempt to charge) 7 times that day. He stopped twice on the way there; three times while she was at her meeting (which she was very late for); and two more times on the way home. He couldn’t get a full charge at any of the stops, which is why he had to keep stopping again and again for partial charges. I don’t remember the exact order, but some of the problems he experienced included: Charging station was broken when he got there. Charging station wouldn’t accept any of his credit cards, or the ‘charge card’ the car came with. Charging station was low-output (110 volt) which would take 36-48 hours for a full charge, and would only add about 5 miles of range for each hour charged (he ran into this problem more than once). The charging station limited the charge to 45 minutes on any one day (he ran into this problem a few times, and had to go to another charging station to get another 45 minutes worth of charge - which used up charge to get from one charging station to another). Charging station only had one plug, and there was a car already there - with the owner nowhere in sight to move it. The Leaf’s navigation system has locations of charging stations programmed in, so he went to them. But it didn’t show which ones were out of order, or limited to 45 minutes of charge per day, or were low-output 110 volt systems. He repeatedly called an 800 help line, and a couple of times they were able to take his credit card over the phone and enabled the charge - but it still limited him to 110 volts of slow charge, or the cap of 45 minutes per day. The bottom line, what should have been a total 7 hour day and getting home by 3 pm, turned into a 22 hour day. They left at 8:00 am, and finally got home at 6:00 am the next morning. So much for the advertised ‘250 mile’ range of the Leaf. He complained to the dealer and of course got the usual ’they all do that’, ’that’s to be expected with your personal kind of use’, ‘your mileage may vary’, etc. etc. etc. Since then he consistently found that real-world winter driving range (highway driving) is no more than 110 miles, and in the summer, about 150 miles (batteries hold more of a charge at higher temperatures, but are still constrained by high speed highway driving and lack of regenerative braking, and if you use air conditioning). He ended up giving his wife the Leaf, and got a Toyota Yaris for himself (it was economical enough to pass his wife’s environmental purity test). A friend of my wife also bought a Leaf, with the basic ‘100 mile’ range battery. She thought it would be plenty. Her experiences have been that the real-world range in the winter in our area is about 40 miles. The situation is no doubt very different in California, with a much more temperate climate without sub-freezing temperatures, and vastly more charging stations. But this was one person's real-world experience here in New England. The laws of physics are very strict. Gasoline has about 100 times the energy density of a lithium-ion battery. https://www.topspeed.com/cars/warp-c...-ar185365.html Of course there will continue to be incremental improvements in batteries. But there is a limit as to how densely you can pack electrons together (again, those pesky laws of physics). Those same laws of physics govern charging time. It’s difficult to cram electrons in so fast as to fully charge a 300 kWh battery in the same 3 minutes it takes to fill a gas tank. First you'd need a battery that could accept inflow that quickly. Then, unless you’ve invented room-temperature superconductors, there are limits as to how much current a given size cable can transfer (resistance, heat build up, etc.). As with most things, YMMV. |
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Nissan Ariya? Certainly looks both interesting but also a decent drivetrain.
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I was looking into Ariya as well... but they haven't really shown Ariya other than concept. Also IDK if Nissan gonna survive, kinda like Mitsu. lol
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Well shit... I've been under the rock then. Thanks for the vid!
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Its like the MPG rating of a turbocharged car. It gets good mileage IF you dont bag on it and get the turbos spinning, which is never mentioned. Leisurely cruising keeping the turbos in check so yeah it can get the advertised real good mileage. But get on it and you cant beat physics. All that air needs its proportional amount of gasoline...and your mileage tanks. IN any case i know EV's are inevitable and i will make the jump at some point in the future. Right now my first choice for an EV is the new VW ID.Buzz new-age hippy wagon |
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