OverlanderJK
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Doesn’t it charge while driving though?
EV Awesomeness
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bobfriesenhahn
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EV charging stations in Carrizozo, NM. Courtesy of the state of New Mexico. No, I did not park in an EV spot, although they always seem to be available.
semicolon
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I lived in Ruidoso for a couple years in the mid 70's while in grade school. It's a beautiful area! I remember during ski season for about six weeks we could leave school on Tuesday's at noon to go skiing, the local shops would rent students ski's, boots and poles for a dollar and the Sierra Blanca resort would sell students a 1/2 day lift ticket for a dollar also. Parents had to provide transportation. It was a different time back then!
NPC 6060⁸42
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Sounds amazing. Think you just dated yourself there but yeah different times for sure.
AZVAJKU
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semicolon
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bobfriesenhahn
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Perhaps not as amazing now due to the huge fires in Ruidoso in the past year.
semicolon
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Yeah, those were bad.Perhaps not as amazing now due to the huge fires in Ruidoso in the past year.
NPC 6060⁸42
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Since it’s a plug in hybrid it’s the worst of both worlds. In normal operation it operates as an ice hybrid charging the hybrid batteries with driving and braking. The plug in battery gets very little charge from driving at least that was my experience with my Fusion plug in. You could never fully charge the plug in battery by driving
JKrob15
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Hybrids and plug in hybrids were potentially a good idea 20 years ago... With current tech and charging infrastructure across the majority of the country, BEVs are the far better choice. This big push to sell plug in hybrids leads me to think a lot of these car companies got behind on R&D thinking BEVs were not going to be a thing, and now they realize they are way too far behind the game and need to throw something together quickly. Either that or they are purposely sandbagging the electric experience to make people continue to buy ICE: buy the plug in hybrid that is the worst of both worlds, think the issues you have with the vehicle are because of the 'electrification', and then jump back into an ICE vehicle in future purchases.