Why electric cars will never be a big thing:

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16. Sorry about that - my husband came in interrupted me

I have no clue about the Tesla charging stuff other than one station was a location when I was playing Geoguessr and shortly after that I noticed they had put one in here in town. I have no ambition to ever own a Tesla. They are cute and all, but have little carrying capacity and I'd rip the undercarriage out on my driveway.

As for the fuel inefficient Suburban, it's a three quarter ton truck with a 454 engine. I had to have a 3/4 ton when we were hauling horses all over the place, hauling our tractor on the flatbed, and hauling 75-100 bales of hay on the flatbed. They don't even make them with that engine anymore. When I bought it, it was as a working truck and it does do that.

It's a 1999, I bought it off lease when it was five years old and have owned it for twelve years. I figure that it should have another 200,000 miles left on the engine (it has almost 170,000 miles now), if we take care of it. Since we're not hauling regularly, it should last me the rest of my life or at least as long as I might ever need to have a truck for. It's paid for, so I'll hang on to it as long as I can get it repaired and get gas for it.

That's why we bought the Prius for my husband to use when he was working in town - the truck is simply too expensive to use for every day driving, unless we have to haul stuff. Now that he is retired, he wants us each to have two efficient cars and he's planning to look for a Prius v so we have slightly more carrying space and he will have more room for his legs. I'll get to drive the older Prius to appointments and to my meetings. The Suburban is just too damn hard to park in most parking lots today and it takes a good chunk of gas to get from our farm to anywhere.

We buy used and drive the vehicles to death. The old (2006) Prius was $8500 almost four years ago. We'll spend a little more for a slightly newer Prius v since we're going on more trips these days - that's why we need the carrying capacity, for luggage, photo equipment, needlework stuff, folding chairs, etc.