EVs, Hyundai Ionic, Home Charging & Tesla Test Drive
I thought it might be helpful to tell our story of shopping for EVs, our decision, and how it's worked out so far. Comments, please! Our Plug in Prius We'd long owned a plug in Hybrid Prius , where plugging in to our regular driveway outlet, we'd get 9-12 miles on the 2nd battery, and for those local errands pretend we were driving an EV ! I think this Prius was one of the early vehicles with regenerative breaking , where use of the brakes adds electricity to the small extra plug in battery. The biggest challenge to the plug in hardware was a habit to leave the cable outside, which resulted in corroding and no longer working. So over the 12 years we owned it, we went through 4 different charging cables! A cool charging story with our plug in Prius happened when we drove to Ashville, SC. Approaching on the Rocky Mountain Highway, the road has a very long decline into the valley where Ashville lay. I mentioned the regenerative breaking. We...
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