That’s still 4 times more than I have spent on my last 12 cars with exception of one crazy nice Audi I had that ran me 7500 lol. And I regret spending that much on a car, despite loving the 400hp fire breathing V8 under the hood. I honestly mainly drive motorcycles, which has been the cheapest way for me to reduce my carbon footprint. I get over 50 mpg on my cruiser and near 80 on my dual sport, and both my motorcycles + my Subaru + my jeep all cost less than one POS chevy bolt LOL. I understand I’m a special case because I work on my vehicles so it’s very cheap for me to own a beater, if I didnt have the ability to make all my own repairs and have shop cost on parts and stuff i might consider an EV more strongly but its just way too expensive for now even factoring in what i spend on fuel and repairs.
Where the heck do you live where you can get a car for 3-4k? Last car I bought was 10k for 130,000 miles on it and the one car I saw for 5k was high mileage, absolutely disgusting on the inside, and false advertised to the point that I could not trust it didn’t have major issues.
I work on my own vehicles as well. I’m looking forward to my first oil change at 100k miles, lol. With gas at $4/gal and paying 14.48¢/kWh, I’m getting 107 mpg equivalent dollar for dollar not even hyper-mileing. As far as long term costs go, I’m expecting to get 250k miles out of my batteries and if the Bolt doesn’t last that long, I’ll repurpose the batteries into a whole home battery backup. Even then, if there’s a battery swap that becomes available to her a faster fast charge, I may turn my bolt’s battery pack into a home battery pack sooner. I’d much rather reuse what I got than recycle
I’d recommend buying used over new. Before Iran war bolts were going for $12k
That’s still 4 times more than I have spent on my last 12 cars with exception of one crazy nice Audi I had that ran me 7500 lol. And I regret spending that much on a car, despite loving the 400hp fire breathing V8 under the hood. I honestly mainly drive motorcycles, which has been the cheapest way for me to reduce my carbon footprint. I get over 50 mpg on my cruiser and near 80 on my dual sport, and both my motorcycles + my Subaru + my jeep all cost less than one POS chevy bolt LOL. I understand I’m a special case because I work on my vehicles so it’s very cheap for me to own a beater, if I didnt have the ability to make all my own repairs and have shop cost on parts and stuff i might consider an EV more strongly but its just way too expensive for now even factoring in what i spend on fuel and repairs.
Where the heck do you live where you can get a car for 3-4k? Last car I bought was 10k for 130,000 miles on it and the one car I saw for 5k was high mileage, absolutely disgusting on the inside, and false advertised to the point that I could not trust it didn’t have major issues.
I work on my own vehicles as well. I’m looking forward to my first oil change at 100k miles, lol. With gas at $4/gal and paying 14.48¢/kWh, I’m getting 107 mpg equivalent dollar for dollar not even hyper-mileing. As far as long term costs go, I’m expecting to get 250k miles out of my batteries and if the Bolt doesn’t last that long, I’ll repurpose the batteries into a whole home battery backup. Even then, if there’s a battery swap that becomes available to her a faster fast charge, I may turn my bolt’s battery pack into a home battery pack sooner. I’d much rather reuse what I got than recycle