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The station wagon made sense for a family of three, but became something of a disappointment because it was purchased before — surprise! As Mark Twain once said :. Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot. And there ain't any real difference between triplets and an insurrection.
I'm here to tell you that a station wagon doesn't quite cut it as a permanent riot abatement tool. For that you need a full sized minivan. I'm with Philip Greenspun.
Like black socks and sandals, minivans are actually … kind of awesome? Don't believe all the SUV propaganda. Minivans are flat out superior vehicle command centers. Swagger wagons , really. I rest my case. After 7 years, the station wagon had to go. We initially looked at hybrids because, well, isn't that required in California at this point?
But if you know me at all, you know I'm a boil the sea kinda guy at heart. I figure if you're going to flirt with partially electric cars, why not put aside these half measures and go all the way?
Do you remember that rapturous Oatmeal comic about the Tesla Model S? Even for a person who has basically zero interest in automobiles, it did sound really cool. It's been 5 years, but from time to time I'd see some electric vehicle on the road and I'd think about that Intergalactic SpaceBoat of Light and Wonder. Maybe it's time for our family to jump on the electric car trend, too, and just late enough that we can avoid the bleeding edge and end up merely on the … leading edge?
That's why we're now the proud owners of a fully electric Kia Niro. I've somehow gone from being a person who basically doesn't care about cars at all … to being one of those insufferable electric car people who won't shut up about them. I apologize in advance. If you suddenly feel an overwhelming urge to close this browser tab, I don't blame you.
I was expecting another car, like the three we bought before. What I got, instead, was a transformation:.
Yes, yes, electric cars are clean, but it's a revelation how clean everything is in an electric. You take for granted how dirty and noisy gas based cars are in daily operation — the engine noise, the exhaust fumes, the brake dust on the rims, the oily residues and thin black film that descends on everything, the way you have to wash your hands every time you use the gas station pumps.
You don't fully appreciate how oppressive those little dirty details were until they're gone. Electric cars are almost completely silent. I guess technically in electric cars require artificial soundmakers at low speed for safety, and this car has one. But The Oatmeal was right. Electric cars feel like spacecraft because they move so effortlessly. There's virtually no delay from action to reaction, near immediate acceleration and deceleration … with almost no sound or vibration at all, like you're in freakin' space!
It's so immensely satisfying! Electric cars aren't just electric , they're utterly digital to their very core. Gas cars always felt like the classic s Pixar Cars world of grease monkeys and machine shop guys, maybe with a few digital bobbins added here and there as an afterthought. This electric car, on the other hand, is squarely in the post-iPhone world of everyday digital gadgets.
It feels more like a giant smartphone than a car. I am a programmer, I'm a digital guy, I love digital stuff. And electric cars are part of my world, rather than the other way around. It feels good. Electric cars are mechanically much simpler than gasoline cars, which means they are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain.
An internal combustion engine has hundreds of moving parts, many of which require regular maintenance, fluids, filters, and tune ups. It also has a complex transmission to translate the narrow power band of a gas powered engine. This newfound simplicity is deeply appealing to a guy who always saw cars as incredibly complicated but computers, not so much.
Being able to charge at home overnight is perhaps the most radical transformation of all. Your house is now a "gas station".
Our Kia Niro has a range of about miles on a full battery. With any modern electric car, provided you drive less than miles a day round trip who even drives this much? It's so strange to think that in 50 years, gas stations may eventually be as odd to see in public as telephone booths now are.
Our charger is, conveniently enough, right next to the driveway since that's where the power breaker box was. With the level 2 charger installed, it literally looks like a gas pump on the side of the house, except this one "pumps" … electrons.
This electric car is such a great experience. It's so much better than our gas powered station wagon that I swear, if there was a fully electric minivan there isn't I would literally sell our Honda minivan tomorrow and switch over. Without question. And believe me, I had no plans to sell that vehicle two months ago. The electric car is that much better. I was expecting "yet another car", but what I got instead was a new, radical worldview. Driving a car powered by barely controlled liquid fuel detonations used to be normal.
But in an world of more and more viable electric vehicles this status quo increasingly starts to feel … deeply unnatural. Electric is so much better of an overall experience that you begin to wonder: why did we ever do it that way? Gas cars seem, for lack of a better word, obsolete. How did this transformation happen, from my perspective, so suddenly?
When exactly did electric cars go from "expensive, experimental thing for crazy people" to "By God, I'll never buy another old fashioned gasoline based car if I can help it"? I was vaguely aware of the early electric cars. Microsoft, which is now both the software maker and a Windows OEM, no doubt would prefer users to buy brand-spanking-new Windows 8 PCs and tablets, just like other PC makers would. Any others with an older Windows PC now running Windows 8 have feedback on this one?
Update : A couple of good points from the Twitterati. Some point out that netbooks, with lower screen resolutions, aren't really very good candidates for a Windows 8 upgrade. And others noted that users should be sure there are drivers for their older PCs that work with Windows 8, which won't always be the case. I've changed the way I charge my iPhone. You should, too. Time for a Linux smartphone? Developers are in short supply.
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