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My advice is to stick with paying cash.... I hate car payments and I am not a fan of financing a depreciating asset.... If you pay cash, you know you can afford it... Would you take out a loan at 1.99% to invest in a mutual fund? If you finance a car to keep money in an investment you are...

I have a few questions.... 1- Why only keep a car 3 years? Financially you are costing yourself a lot of money, but if you can afford and and just really enjoy new cars, I understand..... I like nice cars, but I keep them at least 10 years 2- Do you really think the EV break even is 3 years...

Looks like two different charging sessions... One was 15 hours long and the other was 5 hours long.... Also it is not kW, it is kWh.... One is a measure of power (rate of energy flow) and one is a measure of energy.......

Fair enough.... Do you really think over 5% of your total battery cycles are going to be based on preheating your cabin? I guess if you drive a lot of short trips and preheat every time.... It maybe 5% of winter cycles, but then you have all the summer cycles with no preheating.... If you have...

Certainly, but it is really insignificant... An EV battery is good for >>5000 cycles.... Let's assume you use 2% of your total cycles for preconditioning (probably much less); let's further assume your battery is a 200K mile battery...With preconditioning you will drop to a 196K mile...

Fully cycling an battery has an effect.... This would have zero measurable effect.

It will not introduce more losses (I am a electrical engineer and taught)... The heater is going to run on DC so the conversion from AC to DC (which is lossy) has to happen anyway. The storage process really is not lossy (as far as I know).. It also simplifies control and wiring I am sure

I guess that is what I am saying... When the battery charge changes enough to register not fully charged the charger will kick in... That would not be instantaneous.... Again, I am just guessing since I do not have my R1T yet...

I am going to guess.... Likely the heater always runs off the battery and if you let it go for a few minutes the charger would kick into add the charge back? This is totally a guess....

I am not sure why I am responding here, but your article is based on a bunch of things that can or may happen.... It is also looking at a revolving credit account not a car loan... It is also talking about a situation which this "may" move you from "good" to "fair" credit ratings... That is your...

As stated earlier, this was not directed at you since I do not know your situation, but in America we have a serious debt problem and I just encourage people to consider their circumstances... As I said, I have had 7 mortgages while moving around in the military so I am very familiar with the...

If you have plenty of margin, the mortgage company will not bat an eye.... Being a frequent mover for work, I have personally had 7 mortgages.... The only time there is significant rework is if you are getting close to margins and we as Americans tend to like living close to those financial...

Different opinions but I think it is true.

Here is a controversial response and may not apply to you. If buying a car is going to derail your mortgage financing, you may be overextending yourself financially.

I think many if you are missing that he was trying to give the ICE an advantage so that no one could reasonably dispute the result. He can point back to giving the ICE all the advantage and the EV still won.

So let me see if I got this right.... You would avoid pushing on the top few inches but instead you recommend pushing on the top few inches?

I saw nothing "pompous-ass" about the math.... He just worked through some logic to be seemingly transparent.... What was presumptuous? The guys was just showing what he believes is reasonable.... If you do not want to see cars being sold, do not click on a thread about cars being sold

Still not cool to be rude to someone choosing to participate in a discussion on a discussion board.... If you do not tell him what to do with his property, I bet he will not tell you what to do with yours....

Damn! Someone pee in your cheerios? He gave an insightful response to the topic at hand...

I think your historical driving habits will impact mile per hour charge.... 11kW is 11kW, but if you drive more aggressive it may use that to report lower miles per hour charge