Choosing an electric vehicle, setting up home charging, understanding battery lifespan and the real cost of going electric.
A reader in Georgia recently asked me what a "real" home battery budget looks like once you stop reading press releases and start reading quotes. The short version is somewhere between $8,000…
The first year of EV ownership is when habits get set, and most of those habits come from how we drove gas cars. A few of them quietly cost you range, money,…
Installing a Level 2 charger at home sounds intimidating, but the process breaks down into five small steps that you and a licensed electrician can plan in an afternoon. This guide walks…
Buying your first electric car is exciting, and a little disorienting. The vocabulary is new, the buttons feel different, and the salesperson is usually more enthusiastic than informative. A simple checklist, worked…
Electric vehicles have been on the road long enough that we now have real data, not just brochures and forum guesses. A lot of the advice new owners hear was true in…
A slower than expected charging session is rarely a single failure. It is usually a small stack of normal limits, all stacking at once, that adds up to a number on the…
Three charging options cover almost every EV owner today, and they are not interchangeable. This guide walks through Level 1, Level 2, and DC fast charging in plain language with simple math…
A friend of mine bought her first electric car last fall and called me three days later, slightly panicked, because she could not figure out whether to leave it plugged in overnight…
A friend asked me last fall if she should "finally get one of those electric cars," and then admitted she was not totally sure what made a car electric in the first…
