Aside from the outrageous cost involved, buying a car is no big deal. But for us buying an electric car is a big deal, one that will certainly change how we travel.
Ever since we could drive it has been the gasoline-powered engine that has driven us where we wanted to go and gas stations were frequently a place of refuge from the weather if not a place of comfort knowing that having found one you would not run out of gas or a bathroom.
Electricity has changed all that.
We now fuel our car regularly right from our garage -- and while the local power company has given us a generous incentive to go electric it remains to be seen whether we will indeed save money in the long run.
We are faced with a genuinely challenging paradigm shift in our traveling lifestyle: planning and researching is now mandatory for the simplest of trips if you want to go long distance. . . But that also makes it rather exciting. And knowing that we are not emitting more garbage into the air is a good feeling, a fleeting one perhaps, but right now good nonetheless.
You can find out more about our ongoing experience with the VW ID.4 right here. Or click on the link in the right sidebar.
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