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Nice - I just put a new air filter in my 2009 Camry LE V6 with 192k miles. Runs like a dream!! I've owned and driven 2 Camry's since 1999 racking up about 350k miles between the 2 cars. Planning to keep going until it has some sort of catastrophic failure.
@Chris ...yeah what make and model is that? Looks sharp though! Is it an EV, Hybrid, or gas powered?
Yup - the new Rivian R2. Smaller than the original R1S/R1T.
EV.
what kinda real milage ? trying to convince my wife to trade in our model 3 and y for just one car
And here I thought I was the only one driving a 2009. I have a Chevy HHR Panel Truck (looks about the same as a passenger type HHR but no windows in the back or door handles for that matter and no back seats, just solid cargo area. I don't have 40K miles on it yet, around 37K I think and yes that is actual mileage. Both jobs out of the house I had were relatively close to our house as far as mileage and since I started Sew & Sew it gets driven substantially less. A great car and my goal is to make it the last vehicle we own.
Only had it a week and just urban commuting so far. Will never be as truly efficient as the MY due to it's shape but I suspect in good temps on long highway drives that I could do 300-320-ish 100%-0%. I'm currently averaging
3.04
mi/kWh.
Doing quick math- the cost for fuel in your Rivian is comparable to getting a bit over 90 mpg with gasoline? Are there additional tax issues?
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Thanks in the ballpark. Taxes - up until this year there were no additional vehicle taxes for EV's - and of course EV's don't pay the gas tax so states are having to start thinking about that diminishing revenue to pay for roads. Minnesota recently upped the EV tax/tags from a flat $75 to 0.5%; in my case, $300. Starting July of 2027, they'll add a 5 cents per kwh surcharge to larger public charging networks.
Public charging for those that don't know, is much more expensive. Generally ~40-50 cents per kwh. That's why most owners do all their charging at home. My car and various apps calculate that a 600 mile drive home to Nebraska will be cheaper than gas at today's rates. Maybe 30% cheaper, especially considering that the first ~300 miles will be miles I charged at home.
There's no additional utility tax here in MN. If I had used my utilities EV charger and restricted charging to only 12-6a weekdays and any time of weekends, I'd get charging at only 3 cents per kwh versus 11 cents now. But two big caveats: it raises my rate for charging from 11 cents to more than 30 cents if I ever charge outside that window, and their charger is "OK" but mine provides a faster/smarter charge that my vehicle can make use of.
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MPGe = mi/kWh × 33.705
At 3.2 mi/kWh... my converted MPGe is about 108. The "most efficient" trip I've had was a 10 mile experiment in Conserve mode, trying to hyper-mile. Good weather, mostly flat terrain. Averaged 4.5 mi/kWh. Which would be about 152 MPGe.
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