Ok, story time. I used to have an F150. Last week it decided not to start. So I fixed it. While lying under the truck replacing the starter, I got eaten alive by chiggers.
Again. Again I was lying under another old truck and again something got me. At least it wasn’t poison ivy. But it made me so mad.
Well, the previous week, before the truck issue, I test drove a Nissan Leaf. I didn’t intend to buy it, I just wanted to drive an EV because I thought they were cool and never driven one.
So I’m sitting on my couch, miserable and itchy, and something just snapped. I had spent $400 and been partially eaten and digested by thousands of tiny bugs. All to maintain the status quo of pouring gas in a 15 mpg vehicle. I called the car dealer monday, and traded the truck in on the used Leaf I drove. It was $11,000. The payments are cheaper than the gas I was putting in the truck.
But all that is beside the point, the little EV is amazing. It’s dead silent, it doesn’t vibrate, it’s so relaxing to drive. Its even relaxing to drive in traffic. I can keep it charged up most of the time with a 110 outlet. And its so cheap to drive. A full charge, which it hasn’t needed yet, would be something like $3. And there’s no starter. No oil changes. No transmission to worry about. (It does have a gearbox which needs the fluid changed every 60k but its easy) It barely even uses it’s own brakes.
Ok, story time. I used to have an F150. Last week it decided not to start. So I fixed it. While lying under the truck replacing the starter, I got eaten alive by chiggers.
Again. Again I was lying under another old truck and again something got me. At least it wasn’t poison ivy. But it made me so mad.
Well, the previous week, before the truck issue, I test drove a Nissan Leaf. I didn’t intend to buy it, I just wanted to drive an EV because I thought they were cool and never driven one.
So I’m sitting on my couch, miserable and itchy, and something just snapped. I had spent $400 and been partially eaten and digested by thousands of tiny bugs. All to maintain the status quo of pouring gas in a 15 mpg vehicle. I called the car dealer monday, and traded the truck in on the used Leaf I drove. It was $11,000. The payments are cheaper than the gas I was putting in the truck.
But all that is beside the point, the little EV is amazing. It’s dead silent, it doesn’t vibrate, it’s so relaxing to drive. Its even relaxing to drive in traffic. I can keep it charged up most of the time with a 110 outlet. And its so cheap to drive. A full charge, which it hasn’t needed yet, would be something like $3. And there’s no starter. No oil changes. No transmission to worry about. (It does have a gearbox which needs the fluid changed every 60k but its easy) It barely even uses it’s own brakes.