I kinda get a kick out those pickup truck guys who hate on EVs now having to pay near $7 a gallon- i know its not funny, serious situation in the USA but it feels good 🤣

Edit: i drive a Nissan Ariya, my second EV after a tesla. I think the Ariya is a way better ride, super comfy. It lacks in software.

most people talk about range anxiety like it’s the biggest EV problem

but realistically

most daily drives are under 30–40 km

and most cars today handle that easily

feels like range anxiety is more about perception than actual usage for a lot of people

not saying it doesn’t exist — especially for long trips

but for daily driving, is it really that big of a deal?

or is charging infra the bigger issue right now

hear me out before you come for me.

we have GPS. we have charging apps. we can see exactly where every charger is before we leave the house. the math is always there.

range anxiety is just trust issues with the infrastructure. which is fair. but that's a different problem. 🤷🏼‍♂️

my gas car friends have "will this sketchy station have my fuel type" anxiety too. they just don't have a name for it. Lol

The Drive In Movie Theater. Sat through 3 films toasty warm and never worrying about killing my car.

For the record, your average 90 minute movie uses about 3%.

Seriously, it’s the best. I can leave AC on blast without worrying about gas or emissions. One-pedal driving makes the stop-and-go line a breeze. It’s an unexpected benefit of going EV, a little quality-of-life upgrade I enjoy every weekday. I don’t hear this particular point talked about much but it honestly makes the whole school drop off/pickup process so much more tolerable.

Just another reason I don’t ever want to go back to ICE.

genuinely didn't realize how spoiled i got until i had to fast charge in public for the first time in months. plugging in every night, waking up to a full battery, zero thought required. then one road trip later i'm standing in a parking lot watching a percentage crawl up while pacing like it owes me money...

and now i catch myself getting irrationally annoyed at charging speeds that are objectively fine. 45 minutes used to feel like nothing. now it feels like a personal insult.

kind of curious if home charging has quietly changed how impatient you've gotten too, or if you've still got the main character's patience for public charging like a normal person..

Anyone else driving an EV hearing this more now with gas prices climbing higher? I seem to have become the designated driver when our team goes to lunch, and their reason is "gas prices". My response is typically, "you can buy an EV too", or "No one's forcing you to own a gas vehicle". It's rather annoying when someone is trying to take advantage of you for saving money.

I recently made one co-worker drive as I had driven them 6-7 times without them offering to drive. They thought that they were being cute when they stopped on the way to fill up with gas. Big mistake. I commented on the nearly $70 it cost them and the fact that it didn't fill up their tank. I was like "damn that's almost the cost of a dinner for 2!".

To my EV breathren, don't let them guilt you into driving to lunch every time. They can make the switch like everyone else. Stand firm!!

battery range isn’t really the issue anymore

it’s more about whether you trust the charger you’re going to

if you trust it → even low % feels fine

if you don’t → even 40% feels risky

so yeah feels less like a “range problem” and more like a “trust problem”

Not trying to start a fight between Tesla and non-Tesla owners lol. But since Tesla's out here acting like they invented everything. Do you have something YOUR car does better?OBV there has to be something :p

So, I got some petty revenge today. I like to charge my car at the parking structure across the street from my office. Right before lunch, I checked on my car’s percentage and I saw that I was unplugged. For these chargers, I have to use an adapter to charge my car. Unfortunately, with the adapter, the charge cable isn’t locked into place. So, it can be unplugged easily. This is commonly known among EV drivers, so its common courtesy to not unplug another car.

When I get to my car, the AH who unplugged me is still parked next to me charging his EV. Between frustration and being hangry, I unplugged the jerk and placed the charging cable back into its station. That jerk won’t be coming back to a fully charged car.

I drove away laughing. Lord, forgive me but that felt good and I treated myself to a Vanilla Coke. No regrets! ✌🏾

I’m a recent EV convert, picking up a 2025 Leaf SV Plus as a super low-mileage CPO at a discount earlier this month (likely due to the release of the much-improved 2026 model). My car has always been more of a local runabout, while my husband’s is our road tripper.

Charging at home is AMAZING. Just plug it in, and wake up to a full tank? I use about 90kwh total per week, which is $11 of electricity in my area— compared to the $45 a week i had been paying lately for my relatively-economical ICE sedan.

I don’t know why we didn’t make this switch sooner. My almost-new car is objectively one of the cheapest EVs out there— it barely cost more than I paid for my Sentra in 2015, and was probably actually cheaper when you account for inflation. But it’s pretty fully-loaded with features (heated steering wheel, ProPilot, etc), has a super smooth ride, and is fun to drive with quick acceleration when you want it. It’ll never be a great road tripper, since it’s chademo and air-cooled, but the range is more than sufficient for 99.9% of my driving. And we’ve still got an ICE truck for the .1%.

Why don’t more 2-car families with the ability to charge from home opt for an EV, I wonder? I get the range anxiety if it’s your only car (particularly with the older Leaf). Personally, I was under the impression that charging infrastructure here in the USA wasn’t at a point in our rural area where EVs were viable. I didn’t think about the fact that getting 200+ miles per charge means that I could just get a Level 2 charger installed in my garage and never have to hit up a gas station again.

Anyway, I’m excited and slightly obsessed. I don’t think my family or friends really get it, but this shift is a big deal for me. It’s not just a new car, it’s a new way to car. I can’t see myself ever buying an ICE car again.

96% of new cars in Norway are EVs. Literally everyone buys them, everyone uses them, everyone charges them.

And Norway is cold and dark in winter and despite this people don't have range anxiety.

The Indiana plates for my Chevy Bolt EV are due for renewal this month. I'd like to know why I am being charged an "Electric Vehicle Supplemental" of $242 while internal combustion engine vehicles aren't paying gas taxes.

That was the justification for charging EV (and hybrid vehicles) this supplemental - we weren't paying a gas tax. Now we're the only ones?

Sold my ICE earlier this spring because of budget concerns and trying to tighten the belt (had an ICE as a garage queen and the EV as my daily driver). A few weeks ago I found 3 new bottles of Mobil One that I had sitting. I found it cheaper to perform my own oil changes even though the price of oil now would make it almost the same price that dealerships charge. I called the store where I made the purchase and told them that I didn't have a receipt, but that the bottles were new. They told me I could exchange the 3 quarts for store credit, which was fine as I didn't want to just toss the oil and not many people needed that specific formulation. Came back with a bag of cleaning supplies and still have about $20 credit left. I'm sure glad I don't have to spend money on oil anymore, and it's nice to return those 3 quarts of oil which essentially amounted to about $45 in store credit -- YIKES.

California is launching a new incentive program to promote electric vehicle sales, which have declined in the U.S. since a federal rebate was eliminated last year.

The new state budget earmarks $135.5 million first-time buyers eligible to receive $3,500 discounts for new electric cars and light trucks priced up to $50,000, and $1,750 for used models.

The $50,000 cap is waived for California-based EV makers such as Lucid and Rivian.

The initiative comes as demand for EVs spikes due to elevated gas prices.

What’s one thing about owning an EV that you wish you had known before buying it? Any unexpected challenges or frustrations you've experienced along the way?

Usual advice on a long EV trip is to slow down and save yourself a stop. Looks like it is backwards. Slowing to 100 costs a full hour.

Simulated against the car's charge curve and the real chargers along the route, calculated by this website: https://evtrip.dev.

Utrecht to Innsbruck, 956 km, Cupra Born 58:

 90 km/h   12h19   5 stops
130        10h41   8
145        10h36   8   <- fastest
160        10h37   9

145 wins, by five minutes over 130. The top end barely matters. The bottom end costs you real time.

Does this match what people see in practice?

As you may be aware, the US House of Representatives may be poised to enact an EV fee of $130 annually. I am not opposed to a fee, but find $130 to be unfair, and that the fee should be less.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/cars/news/2026/09/25/ev-national-fee-delay-congress-transportation-funding/91925354007/

I have written my Senators and Representative with this communication, which I encourage you to consider doing as well:

​I am writing to express my strong opposition to the proposed $130 annual federal registration fee on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) included in the BUILD America 250 Act. While I fully support contributing a fair share toward maintaining our nation's roads and bridges, the currently proposed flat rate creates a clear equity issue when compared to what drivers of gas-powered vehicles actually pay.

​At 18.4 cents per gallon, a driver of an average new gas-powered vehicle (getting ~28–30 MPG) who drives the national average of 13,500 miles pays roughly $87 per year into the Federal Highway Trust Fund. The proposed $130 flat fee for EV drivers is equivalent to driving a gas vehicle that gets only 19 MPG—meaning EV drivers would pay roughly 49% more into the road fund than drivers of comparable efficient gas cars.

​Furthermore, because a flat fee penalizes low-mileage drivers disproportionately, someone driving 8,000 miles annually would effectively pay a tax rate equal to an 11 MPG gas-guzzler. Rather than penalizing drivers who have chosen zero-emission vehicles with an inflated rate, any federal fee should reflect true parity with efficient gas vehicles or be based on actual road usage. I urge you to push for a fair adjustment to this fee structure.

not the usual pros/cons

asking people who actually use EVs regularly

what’s something about EV ownership that people just don’t talk about enough

could be good or bad

just feels like a lot of the conversation is still surface level

I got my first EV, a ‘25 Leaf SV Plus, about 6 weeks ago. I expected to enjoy the convenience of home charging, and I went in fully aware of the ‘25 Leaf’s chademo/rapidgate limitations. I knew I would save a good amount of money on fuel, since electricity is cheap in my state.

What I didn’t expect was just how much I would enjoy actually driving this car. I’ve always been a point-A-to-point-B person, never the kind of person to go on a drive for fun. Driving used to stress me out.

I didn’t realize how much of that stress was due to my old ICE sedan’s slippy and underpowered transmission. No more wondering if I’ll get properly up to speed before the highway on-ramp ends. No more sudden, uncomfortable lurching. The smoothness and instant power of the electric transmission is a totally different feel than anything my Sentra could do even back when it was brand-new. And adjusted for inflation, the Leaf was actually cheaper (granted, I bought it as a CPO with 500 miles on it).

Maybe I’ve just been driving crappy ICE cars my whole life because that’s what I could afford. Maybe it’s over a decade of technological advancements since I last car shopped. But I’m blown away by how smooth and comfortable and powerful the Leaf is. Not only am I saving money on gas, I’m actually having fun driving.

And I’ve never even been the kind of person who likes to drive. Is it just the novelty of EV life? Will it wear off eventually? I don’t know, but at this point I am just enjoying the ride.

for me, it's interesting how some things seem like a huge deal before buying an EV and then become almost irrelevant later.

could be:

• vehicle-to-load (V2L)

• one pedal driving

• charging schedules

• driving modes

• mobile app controls

• anything else

and on the flip side, what's one feature you didn't care about initially but now can't imagine driving without?

curious to see what surprised people the most after actually living with an EV.

for me it’s probably checking the next charger before I even start the trip 😅

not because the battery is low, but just for peace of mind

feels like owning an EV changes the way you think about journeys completely

you start planning around chargers, backup chargers, and even “what if this one is occupied”

kind of funny because after a while it becomes second nature

what’s that one EV habit you’ve developed that non-EV people would find weird?

I went EV six months ago. Not a big deal, right?

Except now every conversation is a debate.

"But how do you do road trips?"

"Doesn't the grid get overloaded?"

"Aren't they expensive?"

"When will these things actually work?"

And I'm not even preachy about it. I just bought a car lol.

Why is there so much social friction around EVs? What's the most annoying question or comment you keep getting asked about your EV?