I have previously written about charging costs for an EV that we own. Today, we are going to learn a bit about how I charge the car at home. We bought a, at the time, Enel X JuiceBox 40 from Costco. The mobile app was pleasant enough to use at first, but the experience went downhill from there. Let’s talk about why and annoyances with IoT. ...
An update to a prior post about electric car efficiency using my relatively inefficient EV, a 2022 Audi Etron, as an example. We’ll include some up to date numbers and discuss DC fast charging prices as of July, 2025 (spoiler: fast charging is, indeed, expensive). See the prior post here for more context ...
I want to run some numbers on the energy used by our electric car that we purchased nearly two years ago. We’ll compare that to a roughly equivalent gasoline car. This is an interesting exercise because we bought what is considered a relatively inefficient EV. Let’s do some light arithmetic. ...
Last time in off-topic tax time we covered a small piece of how individual income taxes work in the US. This time, I’ll vent about why this is frustrating and why the alternatives are not great. It’s a positive feelings post. ...
In this post I give a short explainer on how federal income taxes function for individuals along with examples of why they are complicated. In a follow on post to this I will cover some thoughts about how we, collectively, can help make it simpler. ...