Pretty sure I’m in this group. Hopefully I’m going to get the computer replaced on 12/24.
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Drive your own fucking car!!
Yes, I’ve been drinking.
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My current vehicle and my previous one are both Hyundais. They’re vastly better vehicles than they were in the 90s. I like them way better than the Chevy I had in grad school. It had so many problems.
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General Car thread cross post. We got a hand-me-down (purchased at a nice price) from SIL/BIL about 3 years ago. 2007 Santa Fe. It only had 120K miles or so. Now up to 157K. Other than tires/wipers/oil changes, replaced an alternator so far. Seems fine. Time will tell.
Now that I’ve bought my first non-“American” car (which is technically also my first new car), I’m not sure that I’ll ever buy an “American” car again, not new anyway. (I use “” since most of the mainstream foreign cars are built here anyway.)
If my next car is an EV, it will likely be an electric Kona
I like the idea of the Santa Fe Hybrid, but I don’t like that they changed the look to be more boxy and less sporty.
Yeah, Hyundai is making a huge plant in GA to build EVs here.
The Kona is a ICE modified to EV, whereas the IONIQ is designed as an EV, and has better capabilities as a result (for a higher price tag of course). Not sure how much longer Kona EV will be produced. Of course, that wouldn’t stop Fish from buying used.
Took a trip to KC, tried driving only 70 and it was relatively warm 40F+ and I got 282Wh per mile much better than my trip to the twin cities when it was 30+ degrees colder. I think a decent amount of charge needed to keep the cabin warm… Was able to go 207 miles from 100% to 25% charge
That is solid performance. Also doing about 70 yesterday I was around 305wh/mi, but again my big wheels cost me a bit.
3.3 mpKwh?
Yessir. It’s kind of hard to get used to the new math!
Not sure which is better, but yours might be, if we could switch everyone to gallons per (100) mile(s).
That is so everyone can converrt to dollars per mile, regardless of the fuel used.
Canadians have to their own additional math.
Converting from mpg to the metric liters per 100km takes some mental gymnastics.
It can memorized by dividing 235 (or 235.215) by the number.
Easy for anyone to remember and compute in their head!
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Well that bit is. Doing the calculations to work out the 235 formula took a bit longer.
I believe if I think Fibonacci I can remember it.
I wish more people would look at it this way.
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Math will get easier once we become the 51st state and the Canadian dollar becomes the US dollar. And we revert to Imperial from metric measurement.
You’d be getting American gallons, not Imperial gallons.
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