The EV debate

It’s going to be 85 degrees here in San Francisco for the next few days. While I’m always happy for the nice weather, we’re starting to stray into too hot for me territory.

Sophia and I have been pondering whether we want to buy an EV in the next year or so. Right now, we drive my sister’s 2010 Jetta which is a perfect car to absolutely just destroy in San Francisco. It may be the least cool car I can drive, but having no car payment nor worry about street parking in SF is great.

All that said, we know we will need to upgrade cars in the coming years and I’ve been casually taking a look at the EVs that are out. Tesla was the initial want, but as time has gone on, I’ve realized that perhaps they aren’t the best cars out there.

I still get a bit of charge anxiety living in San Francisco. I will likely always be in SF or NY going forward and it makes things a lot harder not having a house to charge in. I really want to see how the EV charging systems develop over the next years as there should be some big changes.

In addition, I believe we’re at an inflection point of EVs. Most of the biggest car manufacturers have launched their own EVs and I want to see how that develops. There’s some great cars out there and they will only get cheaper in the coming years.

It’s going to be fun to see how the cars develop over the next few years.