• brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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    The sound is different. Or I should say, it is supposed to be. Because of the limitations on vinyl it needs to be mastered differently. Most modern releases don’t necessarily take this extra step in the production so vinyl may sound worse than a digital release.

    And yea. It just mostly means that I typically buy 20 year old used vehicles and there aren’t EVs from back then. Though wrenching on an EV is different than on a ICE.

    If they had an EV that met my criteria, I wouldn’t mind buying one. But I don’t think I’d replace my ICE cars for it. It would be in addition, though probably get driven more regularly than the ICE cars especially for taking the kid to school.

    All that said, we both work from home and the most we drive is usually to school or a nearby shop. We’d get by with a 20 mile range car.

    I keep the 01 MR2 Spyder because I love having a convertible and my 03 WRX which I’ve lifted and drives 95% of the time just when it snows and I need the AWD. It probably uses only a tank or two of gas for an entire year. Both of those are used so infrequently that I had to buy and keep them on battery tenders or the battery would be dead between when I take them out.

    Our main car is my girlfriend’s hybrid accord. We fill the tank every other month, so cost of operating it is around $20 a month. I spend way, way more in insurance than anything else to drive so little. Because the cost to operate and maintain it is so low, it’s not worth the expense to buy a new EV and drop the cash on upgrading my electrical service, replacing my very old panel with pushmatic breakers, and installing a new circuit (or my goal being a sub panel) in the garage.