EV vs Gen5 Prius?

They are very close performance:

• Nearly identical drag force using EPA roll down coefficients.
• One is SuperCharger native and the other is not, yet.
  
• Nearly identical results in YouTube, head-to-head benchmarks:
  • - Edmunds
    
  • - UK, RSymons RSEV

Beyond these points, I really have no opinion. I admire the Ioniq 6, 110 VAC outlet in the rear seat area. But I have a 300 W, pure sine wave inverter that runs off the ~144 W, 12 V, auxiliary battery socket. But the Tesla has a significant subsidy that the Ioniq 6 can not get.

Bob Wilson

 

If you have to drive 300 miles to get to Vegas? You better bring your catheter.

No catheter? Then your charge time nowadays to finish the trip will be as short as a stop to pee & stretch & get a snack & soda.
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My wife’s coworkers have difficulty finding their Tesla among the many many in the parking lot. I told her one could put a sticker on it…

 

You can say the same for any white SUV.

You were supposed to have turned in your license plate 3 years ago but they didn't enforce it due to covid and staffing issues so I kept mine and ID my car by the old color license plate.

It is perfectly readable. Far more so than all the plates with tinted covers over them.

 

No need - as early as 2016 the tesla app can Geo-locate your ride for you. Over ½ decade ago now - I'm sure other manufacturers are adding similar features.
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Often fobs can beep the horn and flash the lights too.

 

Is it accurate enough to distinguish among multiples in the same parking lot?

I guess her friends are too cheap to pay for them as I thought they are optional?

 

It will definitely get within 30 ft. From there it's within fob range where you can open a trunk or beep your door locks

 

He's right to be worried about the German car breaking down. It will, regularly, and expensively. German cars are nice driveway ornaments. It's a great way to drain your wallet.

 

To own a German (luxury) car:

1. Buy 2nd hand
2. You have to be your own mechanic
3. (Highly recommend accessing the equivalent to TIS/Tech Info and joining a forum similar to PriusChat). Sadly Porsche stopped allowing such reasonable access. (used to be $14-$15/hr now 1 yr only).
4. Since it costs the luxury maker MORE to pay a dealer (tech) to repair things (under warranty) be prepared for more resistance to getting warranty repair.
5. Parts with lifetime warranty are your friends.

We have a local Toyota dealer (in El Monte) that promises MSRP, but I hear rumor the wait is long. Come by and make a road trip home. (They strive to be the #1 dealer in the country/world).