Thoughts on different brands of vehicles.

[Amerix]

What is the min amount of amperage service do you need to charge an electric car?

Most new houses come with 200 amp service. For a quick charge rate I'm thinking more amperage is needed??

You can't quick-charge at home.

The level 2 chargers, which take up to 9 hours to fully charge a 60KWh battery, are I think like 35'ish amps at 240v, something like that. A 200 amp service should be enough, but might be tight if you also have baseboard heaters.

 

[JimDandy]

I bought a Hyundai last year and I am happy with it so far.

But that is not the purpose of my post. It is to STRONGLY recommend that you buy a vehicle with the latest "smart car" features. Specifically:

https://www.integrityhyundai.com/hyundai-technology

I love my adaptive cruise control and the autonomous emergency braking feature has already saved my ass once. Even if you consider yourself a very safe driver, if the emergency braking feature helps you out even once in the lifetime of the vehicle, it is worth the extra cost. Some manufactures automatically supply these smart features with pretty well all of their vehicles (Toyota for example). I had to buy a slightly higher trim level than I would have otherwise to get these smart car features in my Hyundai . Worth every penny from my point of view.

Btw, a friend bought a Hyundai Ioniq about 18 months ago, the plug-in hybrid version, and is very happy with it. And I believe it qualifies for the both the provincial and federal $5k subsidies for a total of $10k.

JD

 

[InnocentBoy]

In the next decade the push to phase out all non electric cars will be vicious. All the cars will have a couple battery options to chose from all the powerplants will be made by a few manufactures and the auto companies will simply make the bodies and gizmos to slap onto the electronic powertrains. All the cars will feel similar and thus driving will be so boring. After that they will get rid of the ownership model by tax or incentives to get people to go to a car share model.
There you have it saving the planet and losing all your personal freedom/transportation rights any argument will be deemed as hate speech and crushed by our first amendment

 

[Edward Lei]

^ Sounds like a car enthusiast's worst nightmare. Hopefully, I'll be dead by then.

In contrast to JD, I just bought a new (to me) car recently too. It's the most expensive car I've ever owned but also the "dumbest" since my old school 5-speed Civic days. No smart key, blind spot monitoring, adaptive cruise, manual seats, no sunroof even.

At least it's got a 6-speed so that's progress.

 

[rlock]

I bought a Hyundai last year and I am happy with it so far.

But that is not the purpose of my post. It is to STRONGLY recommend that you buy a vehicle with the latest "smart car" features. Specifically:

https://www.integrityhyundai.com/hyundai-technology

I love my adaptive cruise control and the autonomous emergency braking feature has already saved my ass once. Even if you consider yourself a very safe driver, if the emergency braking feature helps you out even once in the lifetime of the vehicle, it is worth the extra cost. Some manufactures automatically supply these smart features with pretty well all of their vehicles (Toyota for example). I had to buy a slightly higher trim level than I would have otherwise to get these smart car features in my Hyundai . Worth every penny from my point of view.

Btw, a friend bought a Hyundai Ioniq about 18 months ago, the plug-in hybrid version, and is very happy with it. And I believe it qualifies for the both the provincial and federal $5k subsidies for a total of $10k.

JD

I test drove a car with emergency braking, and it kicked in for no reason as I was taking a curve. Freaky as fuck - nearly caused me to crash. I don't want it, or I'd at least want the option to turn it off.

 

[Edward Lei]

^ Talk about progress eh?

 

[JimDandy]

I test drove a car with emergency braking, and it kicked in for no reason as I was taking a curve. Freaky as fuck - nearly caused me to crash. I don't want it, or I'd at least want the option to turn it off.

I'm guessing it was not a Hyundai. The only issue I have had with the "smart" features in my vehicle after 30k is a very few times, when using the adaptive cruise control, if the car ahead of me turned off to the right and slowed down in the process, my car would unnecessarily slow down to match speed of vehicle exiting right. Not really a safety issue, just a little annoying.

JD

 

[johnnydepth]

A friend of mine has had lots of problems with the lane assist in a BMW, so he took it into the dealer and had the software disabled.

 

[coffeeb]

My friend used to work at a dodge/jeep/crystler combo dealer ship, he told me never to buy any of those brands, they might be cheaper off the lot but the repair costs over time will drain you. You pretty much get what you pay for, cheap shitty parts, shitty construction.

 

[rlock]

I'm guessing it was not a Hyundai. The only issue I have had with the "smart" features in my vehicle after 30k is a very few times, when using the adaptive cruise control, if the car ahead of me turned off to the right and slowed down in the process, my car would unnecessarily slow down to match speed of vehicle exiting right. Not really a safety issue, just a little annoying.

JD

It was a Kia; the only real negative about the car I test drove. Regardless, it's still a feature I do not need or want. People should have the option to not have it; same goes for heated seats & steering wheel. But at least the manufacturer allows it to be shut off by the driver.