I've noticed pretty much the opposite around me. At least 2:1 or 3:1 mavericks to santas cruz. Even in my neighborhood, there are three mavericks (including mine) and one santa cruz.
Yeah, it's a significant drop compared to what you can get in warmer weather, but will still be better than an ICE equivalent. When I got my mav hybrid last winter, I was doing a daily 4 mile roundtrip each morning to drop the kid off at school. I had a Corolla ICE before, and was able to...
I wouldn't worry about it. HV batteries are pretty much considered life-of-vehicle parts. If something happens in the first 8 years/100k miles you'll get a new one under warranty. If you have to replace it after that there will likely be a number of refurbished, salvaged, or third party options...
Hard to say your overall impact. The EPA estimates do factor in cold weather starts so it's built into the numbers, but you can expect low 30s for short/cold trips in below freezing, but once you get to 40+ degrees you can also expect to see 50+mpgs on city trips. Tends to even out in the end.
Here's a table that will give you a sense of the cost savings based on different driving scenarios. I've highlighted your 80-20 mix. I've set it at 4000 miles/year (a little less than 7000KM) and added what I think (based on a quick google search) is the average price per gallon in Canda in USD...
Aha, I'm starting to understand why you're struggling with my number. Seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the term future value. Future value=/=the future value of the vehicle. Both will likely be worth much less than that in ten years. Future value is just the value of a given defined...
There may be additional upkeep/maintenance costs for one or the other, but research has shown that HEVs have less upkeep/maintenance costs than ICEVs over the total life, so rather than complicate the formula I decided to call it even.
There are real questions whether a boutique trim level...
Yeah. I would expect Google to roll out by device. This would mean they would have to have flags in the software itself that trigger the UI update based on each car you're connected to, and that the app is essentially running multiple versions at once. I just figured Google had a ledger and...
If you want to know the difference in "total cost" of owning the Tremor over the Hybrid (which is related the OP), just taking the present value understates that total cost because either 1) you're losing out on the opportunity to grow the value of that money (i.e., investment opportunity cost)...
The Google servers that Android Auto runs on. The head unit or car shouldn't matter in this case because it's just mirroring the software on the phone. The phone will matter if your OS version is more than a couple versions old. It's hard to tell for sure, but the phone may matter even on newer...