Recent content by ME_Andy

Agree with that. Just update the batteries and keep it going.

Bolts are a great option. From my family's experience, their batteries last longer than a Tesla's. Leaf batteries have been awful. I guess a Leaf could work if you only need 60 miles of range but I'd spend a bit more to get 250 mile range from a Bolt.

I plug it in.

You can tell it's a newer model because it doesn't have the roof rack. Great car.

Small modular reactors are starting to become a thing here in the US. Solar is really cheap, wind is cheap, tons of large batteries on the roads. Surely somebody could put two and two together to stabilize the grid. No comment on dysfunctional government.

I call BS on that. The relatively small price cuts were known way in advance.

Of course, TSLA stock dropped 7% right when the news came out. Strange. I bought as much as I could.

ICE sales peaked in 2017. That makes me feel old. https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-sales-of-combustion-engine-cars-peaked-in-2017

Not too much. The cheapest on Autotempest across all of America is $57k

We searched carefully for a 2015 Leaf with the "lizard battery." It still degraded like crazy but not as bad as the originals. Still no liquid cooling at that point. Quaint.

My Bolt hasn't needed anything in 50k miles. I rotated the tires and did the cabin air filter because I felt like it. What maintenance did you do on your Jeep in the first 50k miles?

I'm sorry your Denali EV was a lemon. There's a thread on Reddit about a construction company saving a sh** ton of money by switching to EV trucks. They saved like $10k/year for each truck, maintenance included.

They said the test fleet is over 13M miles now. Lots of tech details here: https://electrek.co/2026/03/23/tesla-semi-jay-leno-garage-new-details-production-specs/

How expensive is diesel now?

The Bolt allegedly handles a little better than the Equinox. Most people probably wouldn't notice the difference between an old Bolt and a new one.