Chevrolet Bolt

[Yw-slayer]

I, like I suspect most people, am looking forward to see what BMW comes out with as regards this rumoured "full-electric" 3-series.

[thesameguy]

A coworker just got a 330e and it's solid - I imagine 3e would truly be something worth getting excited about!

[Crazed_Insanity]

330e can only go for 14miles on a full charge!?!?!? And it's already at about the same price range with Model 3...

Currently the smallish i3 is already at about Model 3 price range. I can't imagine a full EV 3-series with more lithium ion batteries becoming cheaper...

But anyway, more the merrier.

[thesameguy]

Might not be cheaper, but when the Feds kick in $7500 things do get weird....

[Crazed_Insanity]

Hmm..., if you want a BMW and get a $7500 discount, I suppose it's a pretty good deal...

But I just want a cheap reliable transport. No BMW for me!

[Kchrpm]

Cross-posting in both the Bolt and Tesla threads, because of relevance to both.

http://jalopnik.com/chevrolets-tesla...kly-1797023765

But here we are, with the Model 3 having nearly 400,000 preorders still hanging around waiting for a delivery and less than 8,000 already-available Bolts being bought in seven months.

Thus, the storyline continues: Tesla can’t make enough cars, whereas everybody else is just making too dang many—no matter how hard everybody else tries to compete.

[thesameguy]

Monday 7/17.2017 we drove from home to your sister's place, went to lunch about 8 miles away (round trip) and then drove home. That was a total of 182 miles.

In Walnut Creek we plugged the car into a free Level 2 charger for two hours while eating lunch which added 26 miles of range to the battery. (Charge was started when the remaining range was 164 miles; when we pulled the cable the remaining range was 190 miles so, it was not a 40 AMP charger... maybe half that.)

The entire trip was made with the AC on (dashboard thermometer readout was never under 89° and got up to 102°). The "usual" speed on the speedometer was 65 MPH. Frequently we hit 70-72 MPH when keeping up with traffic.

When we got home the range meter said the remaining range was 108 miles.

If we'd not recharged the car in Walnut Creek we'd have arrived home with 72 miles on the meter (which means with hot weather, AC on and freeway driving the range is 254 miles).

To replace the missing 44.5 kWh in the battery electricity will cost $3.15 (at $0.0716/kWh) or about a gallon of gas. According to the onboard display it will take 7hr 30min to fully recharge the battery.

It's like 182 miles per gallon!

IIRC they have a 30a 240v charger. It might be 40a, but I don't think it is.

[Crazed_Insanity]

How come your dads electricity rate is so low? 7cents/kWh? SCE has lowest EV rate at 14cents! So even with that figure, your dad's doing 90 mpg!

[thesameguy]

I dunno.. Sacramento has good EV rates? Our rate with the 500e was .0836 ... not sure what allowed it to drop another penny.

[Crazed_Insanity]

With rates so low, wouldnt it be harder to justify solar panels? Do you see neighbors going solar at all?

If you could manage to get that Hyundai Ioniq subscription, you'll be earning money as you charge. I think they are reimbursed at 18 cents/kWh charged!