[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

Maybe I'll drop a few more grand on April 15th this year, just so I can say I helped the planet.

"Maybe"

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by gblansten

I am definitely getting another S Plaid.

Maybe you can pick up a couple beanie babies and a cabbage patch kid while your collecting dead trends.

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Maybe you can pick up a couple beanie babies and a cabbage patch kid while your collecting dead trends.

I've always done my own thing. No plans to change. In style or out of style matters not.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

This Massive Indoor EV Hub Is the Nicest Charging Station I've Visited
Feb. 9, 2024
With fast charging, 24/7 security, lounges and free Wi-Fi, Electrify America's flagship station in San Francisco is pretty sweet. Now build more of them!



With 20 stalls, Electrify America's new EV charging hub in San Francisco is not only its largest installation yet but also the swankiest, tempting drivers with amenities and creature comforts that should make charging their electric cars safer and less of a chore.
The large, well-lit interior comes with the additional benefit of 24/7 security with an onsite attendant. The big bay doors are open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the attendant letting drivers in and out outside of those hours as needed.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/t...n-ive-visited/

This is the dystopian automotive future, safe places to charge your EV where you can all gather to discuss your vegan recipes and what you did this week to save the planet. Me I'm going to drive my gas guzzling truck or SUV to a gas station with an attendant with a shirt that has his name on it. I will fill up on natures god given fossil fuel and then I will speed off to have a steak dinner provided by cows that farted.

Would be a first over here with folk not getting soaked charging their EV's, always covered gassing up my M5 gblansten, how about you..

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

Would be a first over here with folk not getting soaked charging their EV's, always covered gassing up my M5 gblansten, how about you..

I'm at about a 1/4 cost per mile for home electricity vs gas. But I did spend a small fortune putting in two Nema 14-50s though.

I really don't care much about the energy costs though. Just want smiles per mile to be high. My 2020 M5 did that well also.

Did I answer that right? Or did you mean literally being covered and not being in the rain???

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by gblansten

I'm at about a 1/4 cost per mile for home electricity vs gas. But I did spend a small fortune putting in two Nema 14-50s though.

I really don't care much about the energy costs though. Just want smiles per mile to be high. My 2020 M5 did that well also.

Did I answer that right? Or did you mean literally being covered and not being in the rain???

Aha. You sure must miss your M5 also.

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

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Aha. You sure must miss your M5 also.

Great car. It benefitted from awd versus the rwd of my 14 M5.

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by gblansten

Great car. It benefitted from awd versus the rwd of my 14 M5.

I've test driven an F90 and it's quick alright, you just point and shoot in the turns, the cream seats seemed hard though with Star Wars looks and the carbon roof seems to be on most of them, no sun roof option? I don't think which is a shame, if there are any then quite rare over here. What made you let it go..

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by gblansten

Just want smiles per mile to be high.
Did I answer that right?

Yes nothing invokes a smile like the sound of a vacuum cleaner. If you use the self driving mode, is it a roomba vacuum?

In case you forgot:

[gblansten]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Yes nothing invokes a smile like the sound of a vacuum cleaner. If you use the self driving mode, is it a roomba vacuum?

In case you forgot:

Had both. Prefer the S Plaid. It's insanely fun to drive.

[///M Power-Belgium]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Milford bans EV chargers from underground parking lots: 'It's an emerging issue,' fire chief says
Feb 8, 2024
The Board approved the proposed ordinance after hearing Fire Chief Anthony Fabrizi describe the stations as potentially explosive devices because of thermal runaway.
Milford's new regulation allows the city to fine violators $50 per day for the first 30 days and $100 a day afterward until the charging station is removed.
Fabriza said. It merely compels that they be set above-ground, where better exposure to open air makes the fires easier for firefighters to douse by allowing heat to escape, he said.
Underground parking garages are difficult for firefighting apparatus to get into, he said.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/town-gov...s-18648259.php

Sounds pretty logical to me. Hard to get equipment into, bad ventilation of toxic fumes from burning batteries. I remember the good old days when the fire department could put out a ICE fire with a dri chemical or foam extinguisher.

This Porsche 911-964 got a EV conversion . Source => https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/video...ig-uit-6841418

[M3WC]

EV Sales Plunge 55% In Germany As Incentives Dry Up

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/ev...ncentives-end/

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by ///M Power-Belgium

This Porsche 911-964 got a EV conversion . Source => https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/video...ig-uit-6841418

I thought all 911 owners were intelligent people.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I thought all 911 owners were intelligent people.

If there was an intelligence test for ownership of cars we would still all be riding horses.

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

Looks like everybody gets that except the idiots at BMW. I looked at a Ranger Rover today. Very nice. My M4CS could be my last BMW if things keep going the way they are in Munich. At least it's a hell of a way to say good buy.

Same over here. I am done with BMW once they switch over their production into EVs. I am a huge fan of BMW and I have owned many of them. However I couldn't say one good thing about the BMW EVs. They are as ugly as fuck.

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

This Massive Indoor EV Hub Is the Nicest Charging Station I've Visited
Feb. 9, 2024
With fast charging, 24/7 security, lounges and free Wi-Fi, Electrify America's flagship station in San Francisco is pretty sweet. Now build more of them!



With 20 stalls, Electrify America's new EV charging hub in San Francisco is not only its largest installation yet but also the swankiest, tempting drivers with amenities and creature comforts that should make charging their electric cars safer and less of a chore.
The large, well-lit interior comes with the additional benefit of 24/7 security with an onsite attendant. The big bay doors are open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. with the attendant letting drivers in and out outside of those hours as needed.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/t...n-ive-visited/

This is the dystopian automotive future, safe places to charge your EV where you can all gather to discuss your vegan recipes and what you did this week to save the planet. Me I'm going to drive my gas guzzling truck or SUV to a gas station with an attendant with a shirt that has his name on it. I will fill up on natures god given fossil fuel and then I will speed off to have a steak dinner provided by cows that farted.

5 areas in Vancouver have the most expensive price per square foot in the whole Canada. This kind of fancy charging stations will never happen here.

[Car-Addicted]

Originally Posted by eugenebmw

5 areas of Vancouver have the most expensive price per square foot in the whole Canada. This kind of fancy charging stations will never happen here.

That's cute, you think the end uses will foot the bill.
Tax payers will foot the bill even the tax payers who will never set foot in a EV.

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by Efthreeoh

I wonder how much that cost taxpayers...

Maybe I'll drop a few more grand on April 15th this year, just so I can say I helped the planet.

What a contradiction !!! and well spent of the tax payers money

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by Weather Man

I bet the charging rate is as impressive as the facility. Poor's need not apply.

I bet you have to pay $$$$$ for membership fee.

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

I thought all 911 owners were intelligent people.

One thing for sure the EV version of 911 will follow the tradition and called widowmaker

[M5Rick]

Originally Posted by eugenebmw

One thing for sure the EV version of 911 will follow the tradition and called widowmaker

In the footsteps of the original widowmaker, Kawasaki's 750 triple m/cycle, ready to catch out the unwary

[eugenebmw]

Originally Posted by M5Rick

In the footsteps of the original widowmaker, Kawasaki's 750 triple m/cycle

I have rode in my friends motor bike for a handful of time in my life. I have to say the kind of thrill and excitement are like one of a kind. Total adrenaline rush in no time.