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Old 04-28-2020, 04:53 AM   #25 (permalink)
oil pan 4
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
Fanboys can be quite savage, and some of them embrace the EV bandwagon for the bragging rights they believe they're assigned to, as if they were better than anyone else because there is no tailpipe on their rides. Other folks just get fascinated by the hi-tech imagery and marketing surrounding them. Trust me, I used to be more unfavorable to hybrids, but nowadays I don't get mad at Prius fanboys as I still often get at some radical EV fanboys.
I used to be anti leaf. So I poured over the technical specifications.
But 2 places I was wrong. The original batteries actually did a lot better than I thought they would.
The volt and leaf crashed EV resale prices, before 2012 EVs were holding their value like an oil lease.
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