Any GTAM'ers own an electric vehicle?

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PrivatePilot said:
Look hard at Quebec for your purchase.

I've been doing more digging in the last 48 hours since my Volt started to piss me off a little over something stupid (details below) and I've come to the repeat conclusion that we'll save at least $10K buying there vs Ontario. Close to 15K in some cases. Reality is that with very significant government incentives on *new* EV's in Quebec, it depresses prices on the used market as well as nobody is going to buy a 3 year old car for $5K less than a new one. We had the same issue here when the $14K (or whatever it was) Ontario incentive was a thing as well, but when that went away used EV prices jumped $10K overnight.

Anyhow, my Volt needs a new shift lever - it refuses to acknowledge that it's in park sometimes, meaning it doesn't fully shut off. Only does it in the cold weather as there's a futzy little microswitch that gets sticky when it's cold. And yeah, it's been cold the last few weeks as we all know. So I've been having to disconnect the 12v battery every day at work during this cold snap otherwise it'll flatten the 12v during the day. The part is about $100, but I think it's about $400-$500 to get it installed, and I don't really want to spend that right now if I'm looking at selling it in a few months anyways. I'd park it at work until spring when I can clean it up and sell it for whatever I can get for a well used 15 year old EV.

It's probably just upset that we're looking at new cars lol.
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Our did that the recall fixed it no issues since.

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PrivatePilot said:
Just another case of dealers not knowing jack **** about what they sell.
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Quoting myself, and on that topic, I expect tomorrow to be a hillarious sh!tshow with salespeople who have no clue about what they're selling and no concept of how EV's even work. I can't wait to see if the cars are even charged enough for meaningful test drives.

When we bought both our 2011 and 2012 the dealer experiences (which I detailed here in this thread at the time, long long ago) were gong shows. The ONLY one that went great was when we bought our 2017 Ioniq through the quebec dealer, and I attest that to Quebec just being so much more EV savvy with the very significant saturation there vs almost anywhere else in Canada.
 
PrivatePilot said:
Quoting myself, and on that topic, I expect tomorrow to be a hillarious sh!tshow with salespeople who have no clue about what they're selling and no concept of how EV's even work. I can't wait to see if the cars are even charged enough for meaningful test drives.

When we bought both our 2011 and 2012 the dealer experiences (which I detailed here in this thread at the time, long long ago) were gong shows. The ONLY one that went great was when we bought our 2017 Ioniq through the quebec dealer, and I attest that to Quebec just being so much more EV savvy with the very significant saturation there vs almost anywhere else in Canada.
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Which variant of ionic are you looking at tomorrow? Feel free to post after to avoid pirates.
 
GreyGhost said:
Which variant of ionic are you looking at tomorrow? Feel free to post after to avoid pirates.
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Just a 5.

Adaptive cruise is the only must have along with heated steering wheel, but on digging it seems like that's a standard option on *all* Ioniq 5's, not an option. Leather would be nice but it seems like it's almost impossible to find on any used ones, and apparently it's not even real leather as Hyundai went "animal friendly", so it's a pleather of some sort I guess. I'd question durability. Will probably end up going with cloth when it's said and done.

The HUD, power liftgate, AC seats, meh, all niceities if it has it, if not, not the end of the world.

A long range model would be nice but price will dictate if that happens vs a regular range.

Pickings are slim in Ontario.
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