EV recommendations?

[kitler53]

Not sure you guys are the best source for a recommendation but there is so much Elon Tesla discussion here I figured I'd ask.  I think you (Legend) cares more about self driving than EV but.. 


... my beater car needs about $5k in work and my wife wants to get rid of it to get an EV.  our criteria are:
- affordable 
- full EV not hybrid
- not Tesla

right now my wife is highly interested in the Hyundai ioniq 5.  we test drove it yesterday and it seems fine.  I told my wife we need to at least look at other options.  the Chevy equinox seems like a viable option to me. kia is also on a lot of recommendations list but it it's noticably more expensive without being any better as far as I can tell. 

[Legend]

I tend to like 100% ev companies, like lucid and rivian.

[kitler53]

I tend to like 100% ev companies, like lucid and rivian.

they don't really meet my "affordable" criteria.   I could buy the ioniq 5 twice for the same cost as a lucid or rivian.  

[Legend]

they don't really meet my "affordable" criteria.  I could buy the ioniq 5 twice for the same cost as a lucid or rivian. 

Yeah I can't really help you from that point of view. I've just heard that a lot of traditional car companies have half assed their ev offerings.