27 Jun 2023 10:26 pm
I’m considering one.
Cost really favors electrics now.
A new good, decently trimmed out Suburban is $70,000.
A five year old used one is $35,000.
Ours is perfect, but 18 years old. The newer one have zero meaningful improvements in over 20 years.
Our Suburban will run 400 miles and fill up in a few minutes, for about $100.
A new electric SUV will cost half of $70,000, and run 200 miles and charge up in 30 minutes for $6.
Our Suburban has had a replacement engine ($1,500) and rebuilt transmission ($1,500). The electric wouldn’t ever need that.
Of we paid $70,000 for a new Suburban in ten years not a soul would want it. Hey buddy, want a 15 mpg dinosaur it’s hard to buy gas for, or a used electric model?
Yet we are spoiled with not even thinking about where to buy fuel.
Inside my old gray head, I can remember seeing the first unleaded gasoline pump about November 1974, just one, outside a Walmart. There was a 1975 car filling up at it.
It was not too many years, before you couldn’t buy leaded gasoline.
I’m making a prediction right now.
The last gasoline vehicle, will be a Jeep Wrangler.