Recent content by DaveN007

EV-A rate plan. It is a TOU plan that dramatically reduces my bill because I no longer spend 3 weeks a month paying top tier for every Kwh I consume. If you consider all costs associated with my 24 month lease recently completed, my savings on my electric bill allowed me to drive the car for...

No hostility intended. :) It just gets old arguing with people who can't get their heads around the fact that "EVs are different". I save $250 a month on my electric bill because I have a $78 a month EV in my garage. I have had many, many people argue with me about how this can't be true...

I have leased three EVs, and have insight into about a dozen others leased by friends, and you are completely wrong regarding leasing EVs. This isn't directed at you. You are free to make whatever financial mistakes you would like to make based upon whatever rationalization you care to make. I...

It has been common practice for EV leases to be based upon absurd residual values. I have had 3 Fiat 500e leases. All with residuals that were DOUBLE or MORE the actual value of the vehicles at the end of the lease. After 24 months, my first car had a residual of $24,000. The car was worth $8000...

This is Mac versus PC circa 1986. Guess who won that battle for more than a decade? (I say this as a Mac zealot, by the way.) GM will "crush" Tesla in the near term, then Tesla will leap frog over GM by changing the game. By then China will start building our electric cars just like they...

I drive a 2015 C7 Z06, a 2011 BMW 335d M-Sport...and a Fiat 500e. And a 2017 NSX coming in June. Bolt is a natural replacement for the 500e and maybe the BMW, but it is amazing for long trips. Lease on the Fiat is up in October. I love this little car. Hopefully the Bolt preserves a bit of the...

How has you Fit EV experience been? My 500e lease is up in October, and I am inclined to get another one if Bolt timing doesn't work out.

The challenge will be hitting that 150 mile range in truly cold weather. My garaged Fiat 500e sees a reduction of 20 percent during the winter and it rarely gets lower than 40 degrees where I live. There is one guy who shipped a car to Wisconsin and he sees less than 50 mile range (normal is...

What is your concern? I have grown to absolutely love "instant on" heat. It is well worth the cost in kWh/range. After a couple of years living with a Fiat 500e, I consider the "range" to be 65 miles. That means that in the dead of winter, with the heat and the lights and the radio on...at...