POLL - Do you want the EV (MY24+ Dodge Charger Daytona Banshee) offering from Dodge SRT???

[2ndAmend]

Local guy has a Plaid, does 9.1 on a regular basis. They are pretty cheap right now, still not interested.

Maybe if it had fartsonic exhaust....

If speed was the so important, I wouldn't own a M6, which is my first choice for driving around town.

 

[1971demon]

Local guy has a Plaid, does 9.1 on a regular basis. They are pretty cheap right now, still not interested.

Maybe if it had fartsonic exhaust....

If speed was the so important, I wouldn't own a M6, which is my first choice for driving around town.

My racing days ended in76...now..very limited spirited driving..my cars with stock power..(and 3 with manual trans)..give me all I need...and if ya take a car that doesn't make a sound..and turns 9.1's every time out...I'd be bored as hell after the 4th pass......I can appreciate what the guys that race ICE do...EV guys..hell my mother could do that stuff...

 

[RetiredFirefighter]

If it's powered by a battery, I'm out. Lol

 

[RetiredFirefighter]

Local guy has a Plaid, does 9.1 on a regular basis. They are pretty cheap right now, still not interested.

Maybe if it had fartsonic exhaust....

If speed was the so important, I wouldn't own a M6, which is my first choice for driving around town.

Good point. It's not just about speed, it's about the total experience. And batteries-on-wheels are an abysmal failure in that regard.

For example, here are the two fastest production street cars that CarWow has tested to date. Both are flashlight powered:



And if I ever won one in a contest or something, they'd be up for auction the very next day (after which I'd get a real man's car).

Whoosh ......

 

[DGatzby]

Glad this thread came back today. Why the hell would anyone want a full electric vehicle from these jokers or anyone else? These idiots cannot even make a safe small hybrid safely! Let their stock drop to dig shit status. Hope they disappear forever.


Chrysler recalls 154,000 Jeep electric vehicles over 'risk of fire' while parked, driven





https://www.foxbusiness.com/industr...eep-electric-vehicles-risk-fire-parked-driven

 

[RetiredFirefighter]

Glad this thread came back today. Why the hell would anyone want a full electric vehicle from these jokers or anyone else? ...

Reality is, very few people want a battery-on-wheels.

Latest stats show only 3% of car sales are 'lectric. Lol

 

[1971demon]

Reality is, very few people want a battery-on-wheels.

Latest stats show only 3% of car sales are 'lectric. Lol

Hmmm....97% are smart buyers....now if we can only get them to use that brain @ the polls

 

[MikeD1]

It's been downplayed by the LSM, but there have been a significant number of house fires caused by EV's in the garage or driveway getting flooded by salt water & catching fire in the days following the hurricane !! Some happened during the storm & the Fire Rescue units were not able to get trucks to the homes & they burned to the ground. Some families were barely able to escape with their pets.

If I won one of these POS vehicles, I'd drive it that day to Carmax & take whatever cash they'd offer for it !!

 

[2ndAmend]

Most EV's in the southeast are now a ticking bomb.

 

[Jimmy N.]

Good riddance.

Hope they don't destroy something or somebody in the process.

 

[1971demon]

Good riddance.

Hope they don't destroy something or somebody in the process.

We should donate them to all radical Hamas leaders

 

[cole3986]

I prefer an EV for running around. I would take that Daytona on a test drive if the price was not so crazy and it was quicker.

 

[Jimmy N.]

I prefer an EV for running around.

I get that. But my knees aren't good enough for running around, so I rather drive.

 

[cole3986]

I get that. But my knees aren't good enough for running around, so I rather drive.

This maybe the solution for the bad knees

 

[Jimmy N.]

I doubt that walking/running while sitting down would help my knees much, if any.

But I have to admit that when coming across a VW EV lease for $59/mo. for three years I was tempted to get one. Turns out the offer was only good in Colorado, so I still haven't been able to prove how useless an EV would be for us.

But yesterdays power outage did remind me to fill the generator's tank, and to put an oil change on the to-do list.

 

[RetiredFirefighter]

I doubt that walking/running while sitting down would help my knees much, if any.

My guess is Fred Flintstone's knees are an absolute wreck.

But I have to admit that when coming across a VW EV lease for $59/mo. for three years ...

This fulfills the criticism that they literally can't give those things away ...

 

[Jimmy N.]

This fulfills the criticism that they literally can't give those things away ...

At first I thought it was a misprint, a $59/mo.lease is quite affordable. Went on the dealer's website to check the details.
Then called.

With $2K down and for three years I thought what the heck let's do it. That's when I found out only Colorado residents qualify for a large chunk of the incentives. Oh well, I tried.

A week or two later I get another mass email, this time it was $35/mo. Never did call to find out if the terms were still the same. No matter what, they would've got the car back with very low miles on it since EVs really aren't usable here.

Would've worked for going up to the road and opening the gate, and for going to the post office, and even for taking the occasional 20 mile round trip to town I suppose, but would've also been one more vehicle sitting around for the very most part.

 

[cole3986]

We use ours for all errands which are less than 100/125 miles from the house (depending on the weather). Over the last 2.5 years we have driven the EVs for 75,000 miles, no drama, now charge at home, easy peasy

 

[Jimmy N.]

Well, in our case the minimum distance for all but the local store is 70+ miles.

Apparently the id.4 gets some 206 miles on a charge, so that's cutting it close. Past close if going south due to the elevation changes. That leaves one town to the north that'd be within reach, maybe. It's not exactly flat between here and there either.

Plus, the real life drop in the winter is supposedly 30 to 50%. Yes, leasing one would be as a joke, just to prove the obvious, but to have to rely on that car wouldn't be a laughing matter.

 

[cole3986]

Well, in our case the minimum distance for all but the local store is 70+ miles.

Apparently the id.4 gets some 206 miles on a charge, so that's cutting it close. Past close if going south due to the elevation changes. That leaves one town to the north that'd be within reach, maybe. It's not exactly flat between here and there either.

Plus, the real life drop in the winter is supposedly 30 to 50%. Yes, leasing one would be as a joke, just to prove the obvious, but to have to rely on that car wouldn't be a laughing matter.

Yep, the distance is too far, way too much range anxiety, imo.