re: Anyone looking into the electric vehicle market?

Now for the

Negatives
I have to be honest, there really have been no negatives about owning plug-in hybrids.

Some people will talk about the lack of control or understanding of how to work on these cars, but that's not an EV issue, that's how all cars are going.

You could maybe say there's a negative in finding mechanics for EVs around here - like in the case of a recall. But again, for me, that hasn't happened.

Some minor negatives though are your battery power will plummet in the cold. If it's colder than 50F, my battery will go from summertime 60miles of range to wintertime 40miles. That's a combination of having to use electrical power for heat inside of the car and the fact that batteries just don't perform well in the cold.

So for a pure EV, that means a 300mile range may get reduced all the way down to 200miles.

Outside of that, honestly and truthfully, I could not be happier making these purchases and the 6k back from the feds felt great too (as does having not touched a gas pump in two months).