by Brian Martucci | Dec 12, 2023 | EV Buying, Personal EV Experience
If you’re seriously considering buying a used electric vehicle — particularly a full EV (battery-electric vehicle, or BEV) rather than a plug-in hybrid — then you’ve probably heard or read advice against doing so. Battery life: the strongest argument...
by Brian Martucci | Nov 23, 2023 | EV Buying, Personal EV Experience
I’m the first in my close friends-and-family network to purchase a full battery-electric vehicle. Several friends have plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles though. Before we pulled the trigger on our new car, a few of these expressed reservations about our going...
by Brian Martucci | Nov 11, 2023 | Personal EV Experience
This is the prologue, the tl;dr on why I’m writing about electric vehicle ownership in the first place. It was with great smugness that I sold my 10-year-old subcompact to a dealer in early 2022, at the height of the post-pandemic used car shortage and well...