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Electrical rates vary widely across the Canadian provinces and the American states. Ontario electrical prices have more than doubled since a Liberal Government embraced subsidized "green energy". The solar, wind and gas turbines were all installed with and are still be paid incentives above...

Possibly net metering with a bi-directional power meter?

Your country, price of gasoline, diesel and electricity? If that is 200 miles a day with a full charge every night and an hours charge during lunch? It maybe a do-able at a break even............Do haul any sort of product or cargo? Will driving an EV warmup any customers and increase sales ...

For the moment., One of those suitcase style inverter generators rated for 1500 or more watts continuously. Good to have around home to operate the fridge, freezer, sump pump, TV etc if the utility power fails. Ask Toronto residents if utility power can fail ?

Will a 4x8 sheet of plywood fit inside and still close the tailgate ?

Usually January and Febuary when most folk are paying Christmas bills instead if vehicle shopping. Several inches of snow on the vehicles after a storm will also slow sales.

I'm waiting for somebody to plug the vehicle charger into the aux 120 or 240V supply in the passenger compartment.

Did they firm up a price? Best estimate I've seen thus far is $55,000 plus 13% tax and minus the $8500 electric subsidy.

The ICE at WOT will make 87Kw/116HP. Each electric drive motor will make 60KW/80HP each . A best of 160HP to the ground when on 100% electric drive. When the batteries are dead and if I understand this correctly. There would be a max of 87Kw/116HP to the move the vehicle minus electric...

Too lossy , expensive and complex. Just plug the sae J1772 in and be done with it.

Difference in price between a 3Kw and 6Kw L2 charging system is peanuts. Go for the 6kw so you don't have to purchase another charger for the larger EV in your future.

Lithium battery and any other battery tech for that matter has pretty much peaked. The last couple of percent will be very expensive and at the cost of reliability. I still hear people talk about solar panels and the efficiency improvements that are " just around the corner". Sorry to say...