Originally Posted by mwalsh5757

Anyone going car light with an EV in the stable instead of using a vehicle fitted with an ICE (internal combustion engine)?

I've been driving a Nissan LEAF for over 6 years now, and my wife drives a Chevrolet Volt. We rarely use gasoline in her car due to a lifestyle that doesn't take her much beyond the 40 miles of EV range her car is capable of. Out of the 11,000 miles she's put on it in the last 3.5 years maybe 10% of it has been on the ICE? My car, of course, doesn't take gasoline at all.

That said I'd like to buy a longer range EV next, probably the Chevrolet Bolt, so we can be done with using gasoline altogether, but I'm still recovering from being made redundant from my job of 17 years about 2 years ago, and until recently only had consulting and temporary work to get us by. Even in my new full time job I'm off about $35k annually from what I used to earn, so things are still too tight to justify a new car purchase, especially since my LEAF is still in really good shape. Maybe when here Volt is paid off and the LEAF has a few more miles on the clock.