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I love my iX, fantastic family car.

I have only drove electics in car sharing. Models were Tesla Y and VW iD.3. I really liked Tesla for how fast it would speed up. But really fuck the main console and controls. Nothing is more annoying to me is 1 pedal driving (can be changed) and to look at main console to check speed. Fuck that shit with the deepest corners of my heart.

iD.3 was kind of fun. Also is quite powerful machine with lower range. Drive controls are bullcrap but at least they work. It has a better console imo and what is epic is windshield projection of speed and line assistance. Going from Tesla's "Look at the left bottom of the screen on the console" to "Just keep looking ahead while glancing slightly down on the road to check speed" is an insane difference to me. I believe SAABs had this first back in the day. It is indeed a game changer. Should really be in every car.

My city also recently had an influx of BYD electrics and it seems people like them.

Chevy Bolt EUV (sorta kinda bigger than a normal Bolt) Premier without self driving: very good.

Cheap feeling like any American car. Infotainment is trash; you can't skip tracks on CarPlay using the steering wheel controls most of the time because it's always indexing. A problem no other OEM or even the cheapest of aftermarket radios I've ever touched has had. Remote climate control (essentially what we always mean when we say remote start) is locked behind a $50/mo OnStar subscription. Spies on you to sell data.

But, it costs like $30-40 a month to drive, it's zippy enough, I've got front and rear seat warmers, it's a hatch, and most importantly, it was a steal. We got it like four days before the tax credits were eliminated. Before that I'd have said EVs were the only deals to be had in the automotive space. Now there simply are no deals. My $18k Bolt Premier was the last chopper out of 'Nam for getting anything resembling a decent deal of a car.

We like it. Charging at home is nice. We hope it doesn't break. Hybrid is a smarter buy because of the added flexibility afforded by gas but again, you weren't getting any 2022 fully* loaded hybrid with 60k miles for $18k. Since this isn't our only vehicle this was the easy choice.

Lucky enough to have a 2025 Peugeot E-2008 GT, and it's a great car honestly.

I quite like the design though if you're into the smaller and sleeker cars it may not be for you.

UK. Wife has a Mini Aceman.

Gets about 200 miles range and is very fun to drive.

The only thing I dislike is the almost total absence of any physical buttons.

I got a 2021 Chevy Bolt. Insanely cheap, has worked great. We have the highest trim model, but you can get lower ones with less features.

In the peak of used car nonsense post covid, we traded a 2012 Nissan Sentra (no trim level) with 80k miles for the 2021 Bolt with less than 3k miles. After tax incentives, I think the difference was $2,500. It didn't make sense at the time and still doesn't. But people were really afraid of electric cars then.

Rivians are everywhere here in LA, but they seem to only be for the rich.

I’m keeping an eye on Aptera, a solar powered vehicle based in San Diego that may start delivering this year.

I just bought a vauxhall/opel frontera.

Its not the fastest or sleekest out there but its cheap, got lots of physical buttons instead of everything deep in menus on a touch screen. Its got manual seats, its even got a metal key to start the "engine". The screens dont do too much either, they are quoted as saying they went for a sort of digital detox with this car. I am very happy with it personally.

Its a mid sized SUV and its perfect for me and my small family.

Take a look

https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/cars/frontera/overview.html?ppc=GOOGLE_3388182988_21767604605__&_vsrefdom=mca