It must take a lot of guts to buy a used Ev car ...

[Allen]

Something that faces all EV's sometime. Overall, they don't make batteries yet that last as long proportionally as long as a gas or diesel engine. Engines can be replaced with new, used, or reman units and for most makes are common and plentiful. Batteries need to be new and for EV's they will be dealer items for some time yet.

Then there's the actual motors, wiring and endless electrical gizmo's that can fail at any time w/o notice.

[jon_norstog]

We bought my wife's 2007 Prius new. It has close to 180,000 miles on it. Batteries are still good, hard to tell though. The 2nd gen Prius has been very reliable in taxi service. Bi8ggest problem we had was the coolant pump for the inverter went out on a road trip. That was almost $1,000.00; the car's warning system is kind of hyperactive and my wife was convinced I would burn down the car driving it 100 miles to the Spokane Toyota dealer's.

I probably could have fixed it myself if we were at home. A couple things I like about the car: gas mileage is still consistently 45 mpg. The energy savings is from the car generating electricity when it decelerates, instead of heating up the brakes. Other thing I like is max torque is at 0 RPM. The car is fast off the line. It acts like it has positraction, too. I have friends who drive these cars on snow and ice in the woods, just using tire chains. They do OK except for the ground clearance.

Last thing I like about the car is the seats are good.

jn

[lyman]

I bought an Eggo blower last year and regret it. Number one problem is the weight and balance. It weighs a bit over 11 lbs which double that of my Stihl. It is horribly uncomfortable to us with just one hand/arm.

I still run Stihl weed eater and leaf blower, and may buy another leaf blower this season (mine is a 90's vintage and just about worn out,)

re the EV cars,

I know a guy up in the Baltimore area that bought a new Tesla, it was a better deal for him than a used one, and he is happy so far, even tho he has to plan his day around a charging station, (he uses 110 drop cord at home)

and I worked with a guy that was looking for a used older Prius,, because he found out you can replace individual cells of the battery pack vs the entire battery, and the older hybids were cheap,

[Johnny P]

Tesla says that their battery should maintain at least 70% of it charge capacity during the warranty period. It's a fact that the batteries degrade, and if the car doesn't self combust first, at some time the battery will have to be replaced.