Recent content by bruins

Several years late here, but in my '19 eGolf pre-pandemic I would be able to easily drive to and from the office 45 miles away at highway speed with some hills. I tended to only charge at work, so basically I'd have enough to go home, drive around a bit there, then drive back to work. I'd say...

My eGolf is my first EV, so despite never taking my ICE cars to the dealership service center, I've been bringing the eGolf because I worry my neighborhood shops (in Santa Monica, FWIW) wouldn't know how to deal with the EV. Has anybody had good experiences getting their service done at a...

I'm in LA and do ~90 miles highway round trip and only charge at work (though I'm working on installing a Level 2 home charger as well). Basically, I get to work and either start charging immediately or wait until a spot is open (rarely takes more than a couple hours). I usually drive in Eco...

Having just bought a new SE with Driver Assist in LA and called around to a LOT of dealers, it sure seems like there is plenty of eGolf inventory still in southern california.

I know that buying the protection plan tends to be a losing proposition, but I caved and did it anyway based on the fact that I had a GTI before and even replacing the dang headlights cost a couple hundred bucks. While I feel like a fair part of the reason I got an electric car is the lack of...

Santa Monica, CA. Yeah, a coworker alerted me to Palm Springs VW having a few new 2018s left for a big discount so I used that + the fact I was also heavily considering a used i3 to anchor the negotiations.

Totaled my old GTI a couple weeks ago and just made the jump to electric. SE in white with driver assist. Going from the loudest car VW makes to the quietest :)