u/bird_tube_oficial

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Here’s my situation. I’m a recent college graduate. I’m renting with roommates and I’ve been looking into vehicle options for a used sedan, I’d really like to get an electric car to save on gas, but as I’m a renter, I can’t set up my own charging station and my Landlord isn’t willing to invest in one. I like where I’m at and don’t plan on moving anytime soon so I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with relying on only public chargers. Is that feasible long term? What do I need to know? And perhaps most importantly are there any cars/brands you’d recommend for this?

I currently live about a 5 minute drive from a tesla supercharging station but I’m not sure how that works with other brands. Theres also a plugshare station about 9 minutes away and an epic charging station about 6 minutes if you guys have any familiarity with those brands.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice you guys can give me, I’m interested to see what people have to say.

Update: So I found a 2017 kia soul ev that I believe is capable of fast charging at the chargepoint only 7min from my house, in addition to that I have a level 1 outlet on my porch I should be able to plug into (no level two outlet in the garage.) I haven’t seen the car yet in person but for $7500 it seems like a steal provided theres no catch, I think I might go with it. Lmk if you guys have any further advice, and thanks a million, this was super helpful

Second update: After the advice of my family and some people on here I’m not going with the kia. Currently I’m deciding between a few final cars but my top pick is back to a gas one, a 2018 Mazda 6 to be precise, one with a clean record and 68k miles for a 13k asking price, but I think I can get them to come down from that, so feel free to give your Mazda opinions too if you have them, I’ve heard good things about them from some car people I know so that’s what drew me to the brand. At any rate I’m still looking and will be until I hear back from my insurance adjuster (long story) so I’ll refrain from giving another update until I’m at least ready to go to dealership. Thanks again for all your help and leave any car recommendations in the comments, I’ll be sure to check them out.

p.s. the charging ports in my area are limited to CCS1’s, J-1772’s, and tesla super (another reason I can’t go with the Kia)

I found a gem under one of my comments in response to someone talking about mens issues.

“Why should women help abolish a system men built themselves?”

It’s fun debating with these people sometimes but mostly it’s just frustrating when all they do is straw man your argument. But it always comes down to this, you never helped us with the struggles we faced due to our gender so we shouldn’t help you.

This is one of the biggest problems I see with modern gender rights movements. It’s gender segregated. I don’t know how anyone who desires true gender equality think that can be achieved through gender segregated movements and organizations. There’s still work to be done on both sides. But that can’t happen if we don’t accept, we have a common goal. Gender discrimination is wrong, *always,* nobody should have their gender be a determining factor of their lives, and people should be able to be who they are and be respected for that.

I hope for the day that some substantive section of women believe in true gender equality, I’m sick of the hatred, the distrust, the villainization. It’s exhausting having to halves of humanity think that they’re at odds with each other. We’re all human, we can get along, just stop seeing men for their gender and give people a chance.

Is this already a thing, I guess this is basically how wifi works but could you do it with land based internet? Idk anything about computers can someone who does explain plz. Ty :))