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Do they do good tint work? I don't think I am going to wrap but I would like to get the car tinted ASAP when the time comes for delivery.
If anyone has any other recommendations I would appreciate it.
That being said I am still waiting for an invite and I am a May-July window.
So, the partial wrap was going to be $1800 so I decided against it for now. I might shop around next week up north.
Copied from the 4/6 invites thread:
Delivered today! Super happy! Spent the evening just driving
Put 200 miles on it today. AP started working at about 25 miles.
Very minor scratch on the rear bumper. They pointed it out to me or I probably wouldn't have noticed it. I don't think I'm going to risk a bad paint job from the body shop over it. There was a spot on the front spoiler that needed some detail work but it looks good after they touched it up.
Otherwise the delivery was smooth & pleasant. Very friendly staff at the SC.
Copied from the 4/6 invites thread:
Delivered today! Super happy! Spent the evening just driving
Put 200 miles on it today. AP started working at about 25 miles. Very minor scratch on the rear bumper. They pointed it out to me or I probably wouldn't have noticed it. I don't think I'm going to risk a bad paint job from the body shop over it. There was a spot on the front spoiler that needed some detail work but it looks good after they touched it up.
Otherwise the delivery was smooth & pleasant. Very friendly staff at the SC.
broncobilly
Member
Invite: 7 April
Delivery: 15 May
Credit: January 2019, according to my accountant. Must be filed with tax. However, I was surprised that there is both a federal AND state credit.
Delivery: 15 May
Credit: January 2019, according to my accountant. Must be filed with tax. However, I was surprised that there is both a federal AND state credit.
It is actually not that terrible
Drive an Electric Car? One in Three States Now Charge You Extra
All states will have it eventually. I'm good with them thinking this through early on. I'm assuming it will go up too some time.
No, it's terrible. They can charge me for having an EV, or charge me for having a vehicle with tailpipe emissions. To do both (which Colorado does--check your registration receipt) is discriminatory.
In any event, the reason for these fees is supposedly to offset the loss in gasoline tax revenue (which is valid until states move to something that makes more sense than funding infrastructure via a tax on one particular fuel type--a tax which has been ignored for decades and is woefully insufficient to meet its stated goal), but there's no attempt to actually do that in an intelligent manner. Read the whole article you posted for a fuller explanation of why these are a terrible idea.
We noticed that last weekend! They charged the EV fee and emissions fees! We used a self-serve kiosk and they charged us a clerk fee!
I don't have an EV so can't check yet. I agree charging for tailpipe emissions isn't right, someone should raise enough stink about it so it changes
The article doesn't really say why its a bad idea to collect annual fees. Yes, EVs should be incentivized, but you do get Federal and state incentive...this helps. After that, we should be paying our fair share for road maintenance. Can't have free roads. Maybe ICEs aren't paying their fair share as well and that needs fixed as well...
Gas tax is somewhat fair in the sense that it penalizes you for the usage. But not for the weight of the car that contributes to the road damage.
Maybe a perfect solution would be the one where they charge all cars ICEs and EVs based on their mass as reported by manufacturer and actual odometer readings, the question is how to get the latter more frequently than during tag renewals. Maybe they calc upfront based on 12k/year assumption and refund/charge extra when you renew plates and they can check the odometer.
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The same happens every time I buy movie tickets! Whether kiosk or online! I feel it is so unfair, but have to pacify myself thinking that kiosks cost money and online transactions require software development.
The better explanation is linked to via that article. The short version is that the gas tax hasn't been updated in a quarter-century and isn't close to enough to cover infrastructure costs given current MPG numbers. Therefore the issue isn't that a small number of cars don't buy gas, but that the overwhelming majority of cars don't buy enough gas. The solution isn't to add an annual fee to EVs (a total revenue stream that's a tiny blip in the face of the gas tax deficit)--it's to raise the gas tax so that gasoline vehicles are covering their share, and then consider adding some form of fee for EVs. Until that prerequisite piece of raising the gas tax happens, the effect of the EV fee is that it's trying to recoup a huge gap caused largely by gasoline vehicles by taxing EVs--the class of vehicles that we need to be heavily incentivizing.
From the Vox article:
Indeed, which is all the more confusing, as the state grants an incentive and then takes part of it back--decide whether to incentivize it or not.
Exactly--the solution is to have all constituents pay their fair share. Currently that's not what's happening.
No, it doesn't take into account the weight of the car or its efficiency. It penalizes EVs for being efficient (no gas purchased, but annual fee) but incentivizes those with efficient gasoline vehicles (less gas tax paid, no annual fee). This is precisely wrong.
Anyway, sorry for the extended thread derail. This issue boils my blood.
broncobilly
Member
This is a valid concern for discussion and I have found a lot of information that I did not know about BEFORE I ordered. Wish I had known this. Might have made a different decision.
I think right now @$50/year we're not ripped off. Just thinking about myself, I buy gas twice per month ~13 gallons each time. That's 26gallons*12months*.18c/gallon=$56 of road maintenance taxes. So, not much difference to me to have "blood boil" over the issue.Anyway, sorry for the extended thread derail. This issue boils my blood.
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