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Yes, and when I was at Target yesterday I saw two i3s parked next to each other. Once Bolt sightings are that common you can expect that the lease deals will be better. For the first few months it was on sale an i3 was more like $500 a month.

For the Spark EV, they still do. Speaking of which, since I'm on my second Spark EV, I have two Bosch EVSEs and I only need one. It's the 16 amp model, new in box. https://www.boschevsolutions.com/charging-stations/power-max. Good for someone who only has a 20-amp breaker available or only...

I don't know where you get the idea that the Bolt is meaningfully smaller than the Trax. I just pulled the specs from Edmunds. All numbers are Bolt / Trax length 164 / 167.2 width 69.5 / 69.9 height 62.8 / 65.2 front legroom 41.6 / 40.8 front headroom 39.7 / 39.6 rear legroom 36.5 /...

They fixed the memory problem long ago, and no EV batteries will have that problem. In fact, it's actually the opposite. EV batteries don't really like being either completely full or completely empty. Completely empty is worse, but the batteries degrade more at the extremes. They build in a...

I can add one data point to this (admittedly already too long) discussion. I leased a Spark EV 10/1/2013. The residual in the lease paperwork was a bit over $16k. At the time, EVs were still pretty new and it's not likely that anyone had enough data to accurately predict what it would be...

If it weren't for the Prius Prime, I might agree with you. I've seen estimates as high as 50,000 units/year for the Prime, and if that's true it's going to make a big dent in their available credits. I do agree that they're waiting on pure plug-ins, but I think they're blinded by the Prius...

To get to that price, you must have ordered a Premier with most of the options. I started doing the same exercise and realized what I wanted would be over $45,000 out the door, but I also realized it wasn't exactly fair to add thousands in options and then complain that it's no longer...

I understand why they'd want to limit to .3g when lifting off the accelerator, but you should get more when you hit the brake pedal. It's my understanding that GM, Nissan and Kia do this, while Tesla and BMW do not. To me that's very lazy engineering on the part of BMW and Tesla, wasting...

Why? A Tesla can accelerate at over 1 g, so if it can suck that much power out of the battery why can't it push something close to that back in? It seems like an engineering consideration rather than a limitation due to physics. And for a Tesla, it probably is a limitation of how much...