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The Driscoll High-Rise & River Oaks Shopping Center Developments
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Honest Mary's patio looks gorgeous! I'm surprised this shopping center was able to remove 7 parking spots in front of the the River Oaks Theatre and now remove another 10ish parking spots to construct this patio 😍- 1
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Owning an electric vehicle in Houston
I think it's probably less than 9/10ths. My car's first service is at 18,645 miles. It's a rather strange number because the car is aware of its current status and the wear-and-tear it goes through and adjusts the number dynamically. In the manual, the stated service times are 20k, 40k, and 60k. The 20k service involves mostly just inspecting things. Making sure the lights work, the washer fluid is full, the wipers are OK, the brake pads are still fine. To your point on tires, tires (at least on my car) do not wear out faster than other tires. They aren't regular dinosaur car tires. They're built to a higher spec to handle the extra weight of the battery, but they are rated for the same number of miles. My car's manual is very specific about this in a number of places where it warns not only that the tires should not be rotated (they're different sizes front-to-back), but that regular non-EV tires should not be used because they can't handle the weight. That said, I recently looked up pricing for replacement tires for the car, and even going with the OEM tires, they're only $20-40 more than the crappy NTB replacement ones I have on my gas-powered car. In short: Tires are a non-issue. If I only have to have my electric car serviced three times in five years, that's pretty good, and about half the number of times as the dinosaur burner. I would have thought that the EV maintenance would cost more, but that doesn't appear to be true. My car's maintenance is included through 100k miles. Most EV makers do this as a selling point, since it's unknown territory for a lot of people. But the prices for the service are listed online, and the 20k service for my car is about $75 cheaper than servicing the dino-car over the same number of miles. The truth is that nobody really knows for sure whether EVs really are cheaper or more expensive to maintain. And I don't think anyone is really buying them for that reason. It will be another ten years before anyone knows for sure. The one big, seemingly legitimate, fear everyone used to have was that the batteries would have to be replaced at 100,000 miles. That magic number came about because the manufacturers (mostly Tesla) thought that would be what happens, so that's where the warranty point was set. But it didn't actually happen that way. Teslas were the first widespread EVs, and today there are tens of thousands of Tesla drivers out there pushing 200,000 miles with their original batteries and very little degradation in range. At this time, nobody really knows how long an EV battery will last. But the conventional wisdom now is that the battery will outlast the rest of the car.
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