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Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The timing is unfortunate... I'd like to buy a used EV, and I've seen a few I like on carvana with very low miles for cheap... but I've been living in an apartment and would have no place to change it... Now I'm buying a house with (among many other things) a 240v outlet in the garage specifically for changing an EV... But it's going to be a couple weeks, and those used EVs are dwindling...

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

You can get by on public fast chargers for the interim. 120V is also more viable than I expected. I was all ready to install a 240 line for a charger when we bought our EV but a year later we haven’t actually needed to yet. No long commute in our household, so 🤷‍♂️BTW we did exactly what you described: bought a very low-miles used Bolt on Carvana.

Take the plunge if you want to.

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Had a Nissan Leaf few years. Never needed a 240v. On the standard 120v charger it gained about 5 miles every hour it was plugged in. Most every day it was in my driveway for 12+ hours so even when it was super close to dead, after dinner and sleeping it’d be up to 60ish miles of charge. My commute was 22 miles round trip, so it was almost always fully charged in the AM, and I was able (but it was a pita to run the cable) to charge it at my office on 120v as well in case it was ever a real problem.