Gosh. In todays market you might be better off buying another house. My neighbor priced out a garage + 800sqft ADU for something like 300k. That was a couple years ago. Wild

They reduced the workforce for the facility in 2008 by 180 workers.

They are opening a new facility in Pittsylvania County with 400 workers, 300 less than the current facility.

I wonder how much it would cost… any ideas?

My “lovely” was sarcasm. I’m not having a go at anything besides the folks who would say something so stupid

I know plenty of people that do it. Some people have chargers at work, there are chargers at a few walmarts and grocery stores too. You can charge at a lot of cool places too like Cary Town and the bottom. If your car has a 250 mile range and your commute isn't bad you don't need to charge often and can even trickle charge in your driveway.

Yep, have 2 front facing car seats (had one rear facing until about 6 months ago). I don’t think 3 across would work if you need that. We aren’t tall people so enough room up front even when we had a rear facing, but if you’re tall and have a rear facing child seat it may be cramped.

Ok good to know, need to look into the charger issue and that is cool about the pre-condition. Last question, do you have carseats? Wondering how multiple fit in the back. Suppose it's no different than any smaller car.

Ooohh okay I see now, I was wondering why people were saying they charge it every night. Not because they need to just because it's convenient to top off at the end of the day.

Wow, amazing! I'm going to keep an eye out for that one and some of the other plug-in hybrids

I dont celebrate st patricks and my grandparents on both sides are from ireland. Kinda weird you'd also try to make a go at how Irish were treated though. Not saying I'm going to draw an equivalent to systemic racism in america but you sound a bit uneducated on the subject to be making any judgement calls... don't be proud of it.

Gah garage with ADU would be dope but so expensive

Not a normal extension cord. You’ll need a beefy one with the correct AWG size to match how many amps you’re pulling, otherwise you risk a fire. But there are specially made cords for that purpose.

Every night, just plug in and let them charge. We only top off, so it’s not like we’re fully charging 10-100% every night. It’s more like 65% to 80-85% each night.

On long trips I just use it as a hybrid. You still benefit from 40+mpg and the gas tank is only 7 gallons so you fill up very quickly and only spend like 20 bucks each time. You also get regenerative braking which saves you a ton of money on brake pads. The clarity is a FANTASTIC highway cruiser and my passengers have also said it's quite comfortable. Up to NOVA and back can be done on half a tank on a full battery and I usually charge back up on arrival off any available wall outlet

On the charger costs, my Leaf came with a L2 charger and I just paid an electrician about $400 to install a dryer outlet in the garage with the appropriate amps/voltage.

I think the Leaf is the only one that uses the CHADEMO charger for fast charging. I would not recommend if you’re going to use it for road trips on a regular basis as the times I’ve thought about trying to drive to DC and back, there aren’t as many compatible chargers and the range just really isn’t great for longer trips (especially because on the highway you get worse efficiency in an EV and will run through the battery faster than stop and go around town due to regenerative braking).

If you have a spot at home where you can charge, I think it’s a great around-RVA commuter car. Bonus is you can set the AC or heat to pre-condition, so you get in to a warm or cool car in the morning. There’s an app you can use to pre-condition as well, it’s a little spotty but works most of the time. Really nice in the summer when we’re out for a hike with kids to come back to a cooled car.

Turtles all the way down.

I don’t have your parking but I can make we are parking parking. I’m debating building a garage with a second story. My biggest thing is we love gardening and we love the small yard so I think I’d rather just do street charging.

I'm also in a row home. It sounds like you might not have rear parking, but if you do just install a charger there. Lots of them installed like this in the fan / museum etc

Good point, I'm actually mostly looking at used cars. Is it fairly easy to find a compatible public charger (I still don't fully understand how it all works) for longer drives? I.e. up and down 95 give or take 2-3 hours?

You can still get one used! Consider the fact that there are only two trims for it so you won't get raked over the coals to get good features. It's basically an Acura interior and comes standard with heated seats, adaptive cruise and lane keeping, and car play/android auto

OK, thanks for the heads up! Any chance you still have the link handy? I tried searching for info along these lines on this sub, but didn't turn up anything that looked promising. Sorry for missing it!

Gotcha, I'm looking at some lower priced EVs but sounds like Tesla is opening up some (?) of their network to other cars so maybe it'd work!

We have a ChargePoint charger but i’m handy and installed myself at our old house and had our new construction house pre-wired for it. So I can’t help with installation costs, sorry!

Thank you for simplifying this. I live in a row house downtown and I can’t imagine anyone having more trouble charging than me (that has a home). So this gives me a good peace of mind … I really want a EV and my neighbor runs their extension cord to the street no problem