Jump to content

Randi Borys

Hybrid Member
  • Posts

    2
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Randi Borys

  1. Thanks, I started looking into,it, and I guess I don't need the upgraded EVSE. My husband is not electrically inclined, and while I am actually very technically oriented, I have a rather unrealistic fear of electricity. I was severely shocked as a child. So we would pay our electrician to do it, and he says everything is about $300. I thought the EVSE ran about $700, but I didn't look that hard. So if I have 120s on the outside of my house I can use those if there is a dedicated circuit, right? I think that might be the case for the one in the front yard. Garage is at the back of our lot and we don't actually use it for cars. The driveway at the top it too narrow for a car. My husband drives 8 miles to work. He could easily plug in for eight hours at night.
  2. Good Morning A few days ago we went int a dealership to look at the Edge. My husband is 6'3" and 300 lbs. none of the Fords he tried so far really worked. I saw they had some good incentives in the Edge, so he thought he would check it out. Next to the Edge was a CMax which he hadn't seen before. He thought it looked really roomy. So he drove it. It was the most fun driving he had had in awhile. My husband is a bit crunchy granola, so a hybrid is attractive. We have a couple of options. The incentives to lease the Energi are pretty good. There are really no incentives to buy the hybrid. We haven't leased before, but I think it might be a good idea to lease a plug in. I realize it will cost about 1000 to install a "charger" at my house. I know it isn't a charger, but the term escapes me. Ultimately we may buy a plug in vehicle. My biggest concern is weight. We have always had cars that had about an 800-900 lb payload limit. The three of us are a little over 700. We are trying to lose weight, but not in the next cpl of days. I found something that said the payload on a C Max Hybrid was in the 800 range, but that an Energi would be 300 lbs less because of the battery. Is this true? I know it would wear the tires more, but is there anything else I should be concerned about with the weight? Will it cause any other damage I could be dinged for when we turn it in? The lease is probably two years.
×
×
  • Create New...