before buying concerns especially adding 235 45 18 on wheels with 0 - 15 mm of + offset. Stock wheels 43 mm + offset

[dawes1b]

in San Diego CALI I3 buyer by Nov or Dec 2024
. I want to buy a i3, 2019 -2021 if electric only or
2017-2021 if equiped with REX.
My concerns
1. Tires are hard riding, poor handling, rear spins and they wear out in 10,000 mi. Im attempting to replace with rims with 18 dia , 15 mm of + offset or even possibly - offset so I need not use spacers, and obviously cent of 66.7 mm or greater
2. Regular REX use shakes the electric motor and batteries beneath and adds heat to both. Electric motor mount go, maintenance is difficult and $$$
3. I live in San Diego with approx 2 million undesirables (open border effect) waiting to steal, or smash and grab car. I live in APT and would like to leave to charge in parking lots with SDGE 24 cent/KWH rates from 1200 AM to 2 - PM. APT chargers are 57 cent/KWHR.
4. Sound system in standard is weak, how is Harmon Kardon (owned by Samsung).
5. Any maintenance issue?
6. $4,000 used EV may go away under Trump, fast.

 

[EvanstonI3]

“2 million Undesirables?” "Harmon Kardon (owned by Samsung)"?
Sounds like you would be happier with an "American" car.

 

[dawes1b]

No, the "owned by Samsung" concern is simply they're not known as Hi-fidelity companies. I had a top-of-the-line Harmon Kardon preamp, HK stereos, including that in i3, are now mediocre. I have a Samsung phone; my best friend and sister-in-law are Korean.

About 2 million undesirables nearby is a fact, they cause crime for all over southern Cal. They are white, brown and black (but probably few Koreans? :> joke?) it's equal opportunity. I grew up in NYC it was same. I and my friends have been mugged, beaten, robbed, my car was totaled by hit-an-run. I can't walk a mile in any direction without seeing crime and at night??? In Evanston, can you leave your an almost new EV in an unguarded public lot at night? Crime concerns simply effect my choice between a used $22,000 or $12,000 i3, that cost $50,000 + new?

I do know a carbon fiber BMW, that for under $3,000 of mods, can be transformed into a quiet, fast, environmental, sports car with a sound system even better than the stock Harmon Kardon, sounds like a winner. I wonder if cool cars like an i3, will be available when the CATL 10-minute charge batteries takeover EV market next year?

Easy does it, I'm not evil :> Sean

 

[alohart]

I wonder if cool cars like an i3, will be available when the CATL 10-minute charge batteries takeover EV market next year?

10-minutes-to-full-charge battery packs won't take over the U.S. EV market anytime soon. To charge an 80 kWh battery pack from empty to full in 10 minutes would require a DC fast charger that could provide an average power of 480 kW. That doesn't include charging losses (i.e., waste heat) or the fact that a battery pack can't accept full charging power as it approaches a full charge, so a 600 kW DC fast charger would probably be needed. The most powerful DC fast chargers in the U.S. are 350 kW. The U.S. hasn't been able to install enough lower power DC fast chargers to make long-distance EV travel routine, so it would be many years before enough 600 kW DC fast chargers would be available so that long-distance travel would be as convenient in an EV as in an ICE vehicle.

 

[dead h2]

10-minutes-to-full-charge battery packs won't take over the U.S. EV market anytime soon. To charge an 80 kWh battery pack from empty to full in 10 minutes would require a DC fast charger that could provide an average power of 480 kW. That doesn't include charging losses (i.e., waste heat) or the fact that a battery pack can't accept full charging power as it approaches a full charge, so a 600 kW DC fast charger would probably be needed. The most powerful DC fast chargers in the U.S. are 350 kW. The U.S. hasn't been able to install enough lower power DC fast chargers to make long-distance EV travel routine, so it would be many years before enough 600 kW DC fast chargers would be available so that long-distance travel would be as convenient in an EV as in an ICE vehicle.

I believe u, the DOT $8 Billion program installed some chargers in a Taco resturant, I think GM equipment, not sure the kW.