If we must have a car we want a smaller one. We liked our SAAB wagon during our move but now we can get by with more fuel-efficient "medium" or small size car(s).
Hyundai's are recommended Toyota's had (still today?) lowest Total Cost of Ownership numbers a while ago.
Convert smaller SAAB to EV?
Sell 2 & put the $$ together to get a "good used" Hyundai?
Other suggestions welcome…
(If BetterPlace hadn't died we'd have gone for an EV, w/ Swappable Batteries)
SAABs… We have 2x…
I've got $5,500 in wagon &
about $4,500 in sedan
Suppose each brought 1/2
of what I paid…
Budget = ~$5K..?
Nope, I'm not going any further in helping you.
If you insist on stupid formatting then that's as far as my assistance goes.
It's not difficult to type normally. It actually takes more effort to jump to the next line like you do.
This x4001
They might be typing on the world's smallest screen. Maybe the original Gameboy or something.
Can someone make this idiot a disableduser already (IVI not spackbace)
$5k won’t get you much of an electric conversion. Looking more like $15k.
Is your post some sort of limerick?
There once was a man named IVI…
Who's formatting pissed off every girl and guy
Lift your games…
We can't afford to be
so sensitive
to differences,
novelty, etc.
"Consistency is
the Hobgoblin
of Little Minds"
:Who am I Quot'g?
What drugs are
you Taking beca
use whatever they
are, WE WOULD like
you
to
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@IVI: I don't get it…has someone replaced your space bar with your enter key?
It's that, or you have a severe lack of understanding of English and basic sentence structure. My daughter in year 2 writes infinitely better strings of sentences than your posts.
I'm all for freedom of speech.
This ain't speech.
Their speech infringes my freedom from it.
Woah, all OP's posts which are longer than 1 line are formatted like this with 4k comments? :o
its like you take some grammar throw it in a pot mix in some words start to lay them out in order but then drop the pot and it spills in a mess
and call it art
but its
not art
its a shit
excuse for
wanting to have a regular discussion but not wanting to
accept mundanity is a part of life
a part of you
a better way to have a conversation that is
not art
but just another car thread
just ask for a car suggestion like a regular person you absolute crap
or come up with something interesting to say and dont rely on being annoying to get attention
I like Hyundai Ioniq and Hyundai Kona Electric.
I love the Kona Electric…. till I saw that eye watering price… hot damn! A Kona that has LCT applied seems almost ironic… I was hoping it was going to be a smaller, cheaper EV than the Ionic… wasn’t I wrong.
EV cars are a (relatively) long way off being "affordable", or offering small price premiums over their petrol counterparts
According to our next possible PM, we will all be driving EV’s by 2025. So, either they are going to subsidise them, or we are all getting pay rises.
I think that they are getting cheaper, which is good, but it’s still closer to 10 or 15 years before we see truely mainstream affordable pricing. It wasn’t that long ago that even just hybrid technology was astoundingly expensive over the petrol equivalent, and now to get an equivalent model in a hybrid is almost negligible.
@pegaxs: I haven’t done the maths, but when you think about the reduced running costs of an EV, paying more upfront for the vehicle, but significantly less to fuel it is probably closer value than you think.
@Euphemistic: I did the maths ages ago on this forum somewhere based on an i30 vs Ionic electric. The difference in price would buy you close to 10~12 years worth of fuel at current price differences.
You can do some simple maths on the Kona now that it comes in both electric and ICE configurations. And I can tell you, there is a lot of fuel to be had on a vehicle that costs $30,000 for an average petrol model, up to a starting price of $64,000 for the electric version. That’s about $34,000 worth of running costs you need to absorb. That’s a lot of driving, even if you get free electricity…
So, while it is getting closer, it’s certainly not nearly as good as hybrid technology is price wise at the moment. The new Corolla hybrid version is only about $1~2k premium over the regular ICE version. From a reduced running costs perspective, this difference could be recouped in as little 2~3 years.
What is happening.
Why
Are you
Needing to be
Keying words this way
Even at the expense of
Readability but subtly exposing the unhip…?
Vote 1 - No posts like the rear of a VW Beetle.
His/Her
posts, are
becoming
more"
frequent…
This,
is…
either
a
troll or..
someone needing professional
help!
No.
Budget?
And can you manage to reply to this msg while keeping sentences in the right way and not
randomly
hitting enter?