Tag: Car

Back in May, I drove my new 2016 e-golf out to Madison and it left me thinking that it’s not a great option for that drive.  With the 24.2-kWh battery pack, my car has an EPA estimated range of 83 miles (which should be plenty of range to get there).  In practice, the range is …

One of my big concerns when I bought my 2016 VW e-Golf was how long the battery pack would last.  As we established in the previous e-Golf post, if it lasts as my daily driver for 5 years, it should effectively pay for itself.  I’m not terribly worried about the battery degrading that fast. Fully …

As I mentioned in a previous post, I bought my 2016 VW e-Golf for $10,640 but it wasn’t the first electric car that I looked at.  Before that, I tried to lease a 2019 Hyundai Ioniq EV but no dealer anywhere near me was willing to provide one.  At the time, they were offering them …

Back in May, I bought a 2016 VW e-Golf (my first electric car).  Before I bought it, I did a ton of research and I knew theoretically what I was getting into but really needed to figure out a few things in practice.  Two weeks after it arrived at my house, I tried a roadtrip …

Last week, I drove from Milwaukee to Madison and back again in the new car.  The 2016 e-Golf has a stated range of 83 miles between charges.  I wanted to see what that looks like in real life. A level 2 charger needs roughly four hours to fully charge the battery.  A level 3 charger …

I have wanted to get an electric car for a while now.  With their supercharger network, a Tesla Model 3 would be the logical choice but it’s $36k and I wouldn’t want to spend any more than $15k on any car.  Two years ago, I put down a deposit (that they never gave back to …