I went down to the big city to go shopping. The four of us took the new EV down there on a shopping trip. It is fun not to have to go to the gas station anymore. It will take some time to recharge the car, but I usually don't need to drive very far, so no worries.
Other than that, I idid some short walks around the neighborhood.
I've decided I don't need to file any more tax forms other than my usual income tax form. It is not worth trying to chase down a refund if you don't have to, and I highly doubt anything is owed to the government.
Some flowering trees down by the grocery store:
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Remember to plan ahead for recharging times if you need to drive longer distances.
I'm not planning on using the EV for longer drives until the charging network gets some improvements. I have heard that one of the government plans is to put in charging spots every 50 miles on interstate highways but for right now long-trip planning is a bit difficult.
Beautiful blossoms! Yeah, taxes are a drag! (sigh). I've still got to do ours and it's April 1st already!
Good job with your 5012 @actifit steps for the day. Take care!
Taxes are mostly done thankfully. I've been procrastinating more than usual and worrying about things but I think I've figured it mostly out now. Take care as well!
😎👍 You as well!
Hope You have a wounderful day at shopping, looking wounderful flowers.
Is true that an EV packs more instant power than a usual gas vehicle? Just curious :)
That tree looks very similar to a Sakura (Japan), it's beautiful.
The EV has crazy amounts of instant power at any point. Lots of torque but perhaps not as much top-end horsepower when compared with some ICE cars. I think it is rated at 215 horsepower with both engines. It is very easy to drive and makes merging onto the highway a pleasure.
The closest thing power-wise I've driven was a 700 cc motorcycle that made 85 horsepower @9500 rpm. You would need to be down in the right gear to get that power and you wouldn't want to be riding around in a low gear in general because it was way too touchy.
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Did you go to town using your electric car? It seems like a very pleasant trip and finally you found a bright spot on yesterday's tax issue, I hope your choice is right,
Is that what they call cherry blossoms? looks so pretty and grows so much
The electric car is very fun to drive and we did take it to town on a shopping trip. I think this is a cherry tree. Many fruit trees are flowering this time of year and the air is getting fragrant from the blossoms.
Todays shopping trip was excellent, nice and beautiful flower blooms @lightsplasher I wish that some times you need to show you home outlook ♥️♥️
the flower looks very beautiful with a very bright color whether it's cherry blossoms, and happy journey I hope you get to the destination city for shopping and hopefully the tax problem can be resolved quickly.
I hope you found something fun while you were out shopping.
I don't have an electric car, nor do I know anyone who does yet. I have wondered in the grand scheme of things what the real cost difference is. I have wondered how much it cost on the power bill to recharge them. I don't go very far myself, maybe to Mom's is the furthest and I am not sure exactly how far that is, maybe 15 to 18 miles. That also means, since I have a Honda, that I only put gas in about once a month.
My Mother is 88 and was widowed a couple of years ago when my stepdad passed. She did taxes year before last because some of his income and the such was still there to be counted, but her tax man told her she didn't need to file anything this year. She had already been going through receipts and the such. I'm sure it is a load off of her not to have to worry about that now.
My taxes are not hard, but I now do them online. All my income is from one place and all the taxes go through that too, so no receipt saving. I got back $658.00. Not a fortune, but still something. Every little bit comes in handy sooner or later.
I think my taxes will be much easier to do next year. I think I've been getting myself unusually worried about things that are not that important.
The EV has been really wonderful so far. As a cost comparison, my EV (aka Manju) gets around 3 miles a kilowatt hour. It seems like I am paying about 11 cents a kilowatt hour but the bill is nearly undecipherable to me. So a 30-mile trip should cost about $1.10 if I use a home charger. Compared with my SUV (aka Thurstin Pigglesworth the third) a 30-mile trip should take around a gallon and a half of fuel, so somewhere around $6.75.
Manju is really a pleasure to drive and is much faster, smoother, and less noisy compared with Mr. Piggles. It is also arguably the fastest vehicle that I've owned because at any moment there is plenty of power without having to downshift to get into the power band of a gas-powered engine.
At a future point, I would like to get some solar panels and do the home charging with them. Between the EV and a heat pump, I will be mostly carbon neutral. Just a guess based on the increasing scarcity of fossil fuel, I'm expecting the price of everything to go up so not caring so much about the price of gas is nice.
what an activity. happy shopping friends
Your trip was very enjoyable...the flowers look beautiful..thank you...
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