2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale Quick Review
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2024
- The 2024 Alfa Romeo Tonale PHEV ($59,190 starting in Canada, $45,440 starting in the US) is a plug-in hybrid with 285 horsepower and 350 lb ft of torque, all wheel drive, and a 1.3 L turbo engine. It may share quite a fair amount with its sibling the Dodge Hornet, but the Tonale looks to provide a more elevated and Alfa-like experience. It also has a range of driving modes through the Alfa DNA system and characteristic exterior styling. Thomas and James are interested in what this hybrid crossover provides as a daily driver, and to see if it is worth the fairly hefty price. We hope you enjoy the episode. SUBSCRIBE!
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So, the sophistication of a Dodge Hornet with the reliability of an AMC Hornet, and the lifespan of an actual hornet.
Which is what, less than 3 years unless it's the queen of a colony?
😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😅
Amazing
Borderline poetic 🥹
Tonale wouldn't happen to mean Hornet in Italian would it?
I still love the abrupt interrupted sign-off gag on this channel, gets me every time 😂
I’m new to this channel. Could you explain why they do that?
@@MrTw122094 for the giggles 😂. The main channel requires high production value and this one does not
Rob Dahm is famous for this. He’s been doing it for years.
@@winstonsmith63I mean this does have the high production as the main channel but this is definitely less serious and more shits and giggles
I believe it was developed by Alfa as the Tonale and Dodge created the hornet after the development.
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Came here to say this. From what I recall Alfa developed this and then corporate yoinked it for the Hornet because Dodge hasn't had a meaningful new product in years and the dealers were screaming. The Alfa crowd wasn't too happy, mostly because they forecasted that people would say exactly what they're saying (you can get 9/10s of it elsewhere for much less).
Exactly @Echid - apparently Alfa's management were livid that they were just undfercut entirely
@@EChid Dodge has not had a meaningful new product in literal DECADES. Do not forget that the Challanger and Charger were built on the DaimlerChrysler LX platform, which is basically a W210 (late 90s E-Class) underneath.... The have used the Expensive Mercedes suspension since 2004 because they cannot come up with anything better.... Truly a pathetic brand, if you ask me.
That front end is so ugly and weird looking lol looks like a doofus 😂😂
for the people wondering why they called it Tonale, Tonale (like Stelvio) is a mountain pass in Italy.
Ah, mountain pass like, "I'll pass on the purchase of this vehicle"
Is it as jagged as a tonail?
They just couldn’t predict how untraveled North Americans would think they’re funny saying ToeNail over and over and over and over again. 🤦🏻♂️
Ma perchè non parole normali, che ne abbiamo cosi tante..? Mannaggia a sti marketers di fine settimana...
The Tonale was the first concept. Hornet came after.
@@crazyaviationdailydose4780 collaboration and stealing is different, they paid them
Still a Stellantis special. Not an Alfa. fundamentally it’s a premium priced car on a cheap, non premium platform. It’s ’the best we could do with what Stellantis gave us’. Direct quote.
it is an Alfa, it was designed and created by alfa in Italy, stellantis later decided to use the same platform, body and many more for the Hornet, practically put a a dodge badge on it and make some little tweaks here and there. that's why Alfa Romeo was so pissed with Stellantis! @@final_mile_music9713
As the owner of Tonale for 7 months, I have thoughts on both pros and cons. First, I did very good research for luxury PHEV SUVs in the market with $55K USD as maximum to spend. You only have two cars to go with comparable size and full features, Lexus NX and Alfa Romeno Tonale. Lexus NX is a bit more expensive than 55K with full features, but you can count on Japanese quality. For me, I decided to drive something different as driving three Toyota-made cars in the past. Tonale is honestly so-so after driving 7 months, however it's not as bad as what folks talk about in the clip. It's got plenty of power and features and excellent design as pros. If you worry about cons, engine may sound a bit noisy when turning back from electric mode. The use of paddle shift is obsolete as told here. Unless otherwise, as long as you want PHEV and the entry-level luxury with limited budget, Tonale is an excellent choice. Oh, I love the red calipers with my black Veloce too. :-)
Quick tip - try running 91 or 94 octane. The 1.3 takes advantage of the tuning really well.
Just wait until you hit 10k miles and your Toenail starts falling apart. You'll be wishing you got the Lexus instead
@@DarthFurball Wooooow 30k, that must be a record for an Alfa
@@TheRealCatof keyboard warriors need to leave mommy's basement every once in a while
Many, many years ago Thomas said the best car he’s every driven was the Alfa Romeo 4c. You should do a re-review/update.
Also, quit supporting electrical vehicles of all stripes. Outside of an in-city commuter they make zero sense due to complexity, repair, durability, and personal freedom. Besides which the used market for these monstrosities is going to be nil. You think a Range Rover and sports cars get deferred maintenance? Wait till they need battery packs. Microgrid technology is the only battery tech that makes sense. Long live internal combustion.
I love gas guzzlers AND windmills. Sue me.
Who hurt you@@dogrunner100
@@tyler9703 your mom
@@tyler9703 Full electrics suck unless you only drive short distances, and hybrids take 50k miles for the option to pay itself off. It's just stupid fluff for the global warming farce
That was years ago
Since then they’ve driven Various Ferraris, Lambos, Porsches and all sorts of super and hypercars
I’m curious to see how their opinions have evolved
Tested the Tonale against the competition and was very impressed. Placed my order and hopefully have her home this coming weekend.
Sensational car
I'm so... so sorry for you. I can only pray that you're leasing.
@@TheRealCatof shut up scotty kilmer
Imagine a $60.000,- crossover having better paddle shifters than a $200.000+ Audi R8
🤣🤣🤣🤣emotional DAMAAAAGGEEE
Alfa romeo in a nutshell.
Tbf the paddle shifters are the same in a 50k TT
Haha yes, but in the R8 they work... 🤣
audis break down more than any car@@R8andGT3Fan
12:09 remember a moment ago when you switched it into manual mode to test the manual gearbox? It's still in manual mode ... that's why it's not automatically shifting ... because you told it not to.
He is stupid a little bit...
An engine note to be appreciated by the Tonale deaf.
Alfa must love this being called a "version of the Dodge Hornet"
Poor Alfa developed it then it is called a copy of hornet
Italian here and alfista since I can remember (my grandfather had a beautiful 75 turbo until he died and I was his little co-driver!). I really hope they stop making SUV... Davvero sono auto inutili 😅
@@micol7490le ultime 3 tutte suv e l'ultima è proprio imbarazzante
@@lorefraz9416 lo so... Alla fine non suv attualmente c'è solo la Giulia (che trovo bella nella sua classicità, sia chiaro). Però non posso continuare solo con berline e cassoni. Ho letto da qualche parte che forse vorrebbero rinnovare la Giulietta e sinceramente ci spero. Boh, si vedrà :)
@@micol7490 si quello sarebbe bello, spero non considerino direttamente questo aborto di junior come successore della giulietta perché sarebbe il colmo
Got the wife one of these several months ago, she loves it, I find it practical yet still enjoyable to drive (in fairly a non-sporty way), and it's devoid of pretty much any reasons to want to rapidly drive yourself off a bridge, like you'd get if you found yourself in something like a CRV. If you need to go fast to pass or get up to speed it will easily do so, but it's not a "fast" vehicle. Basically if you find yourself wanting a sports car but needing a compact SUV for practical reasons, this is a pretty good option that won't make you feel like you really poorly compromised or lost out on anything enjoyable like a minivan or anything with a CVT would.
I'm upvoting, so don't get me wrong - I like your take...but let me counter with the fact that for $6k USD less than the Veloce trim you can get into a top trim Outback Touring XT that is near as can be called as fast, has way more usable room, has significantly more capable suspension, and probably won't depreciate like a rock falling in thin air. We have an Onyx XT that is a couple years old at this point. The tech is admittedly sub-par, but the rest of the experience is really very good. The oomph is way more than you'd ever expect and the self-driving bits are fantastic. It's not a sports car, but that's why we have more than 1 car. Edit: I guess the gas mileage is the huge elephant in the room of my argument.
@@afterburn2600 I'm not familiar with them, but some quick searching and reviews say that Subaru isn't in the same category of performance or handling, the Tonale appears at least 1-2 seconds faster 0-60, and possibly 3 (seeing different numbers reported). Also the Tonale has 3 trim levels, the Veloce is the top trim, and all of them do (or at least did in October when we got hers) qualify for the $7500 federal rebate, plus manufacturer rebates, plus lower trim level pricing means that you at least could, maybe still can pick up a Tonale for 10-11k below what they show in this video...
@@fpnbrianyou should’ve just gotten a barely used Stelvio people have been seeing nasty reliability issues down the road
I'm glad this fit into your life well, but for the money I can't imagine not getting a X3 PHEV for the same money.
@@gavcom4060 I have had 2 Stelvios, Tonale is smaller and easier for my wife to park. She didn't want the larger Stelvio
My Honda element from 2003 gets about 25 miles per gallon. There are absolutely vehicles being built in 2024, that get that same MPG
The idea of having to spend less on gas would genuinely have meaningful impact on my life and many other peoples lives plug-in Hybrids are the best option right now.
I agree with you Thomas with the PHEVs, that's why we ordered our Rav4 Prime. Just another 2 years to wait for it to arrive.
I can relate to James wishing that Alfa still were doing Brera. It was my dream car when I was a school kid back in 2006
Coming here from the Maserati review, Alfas are just plain beautiful!
In most use cases PHEVs also have the lowest lifetime carbon emissions of any power train as most people simply do not take enough long trips each year to utilize the larger battery of a full BEV, thus you have wasted production emissions for a bigger battery.
For me, too, the phev is perfect. Small distances ev only, overall 3l/100 km for a not small car 😊
Paying 60-70k for a PHEV to save money on gas is a bit like burning your paper money to save on heating costs for you house.
@@StealthyStrides new prius is like 44k cad which is pretty good and comparable to other hybrids and makes a lot of sense. 60k cad for a rav4 prime which is bigger, better range, more power, and more practical.
If you get a cheap hybrid sure. But how long would it take to recoup the extra $10-20k more for one of these?
A phev doesn't make sense for saving fuel, it makes sense when you're in the city so you could drive in pure silence.
@@StealthyStrides No one is buying this car purely to save on gas big brain.
They need to make a quadrofolio version with that beautiful v6
PHEV just works, I'm considering the RX450h+ that gets around 40 mile EV range that would be more than enough for daily commute and maybe run the engine once a week.
For a long time I thought that PHEV cars make no sense, but I have been driving a Volvo XC40 T4 PHEV for over a year now and I am extremely satisfied. In the city I have enough renge to go full electric and when I go to see my faimily in Poland (~400km) I do not need to stop to charge and I have a benefit of extra power from the electric motor when I overtake on a highway. The only challenge is to find a resonably priced PHEV as some brands wants a high premium over petrol versions.
+1 on PHEV > EV in Southern Ontario. Our XC90 Recharge does 50-60KM as an EV every day for us, but we can still pull road trips at 7l/100km on the weekend. Combined we are averaging under 3L/100KM in a full-size SUV. Hard to ask for much more efficiency.
I would have got a 2024 Volvo xc90 recharge if I didn’t get a Tesla Model S Plaid.
i literally cant read Tonale without seeing Toenail with a southern drawl
Toe-Nailee
GORLAMI
That's not even the correct way to pronounce it
using plugin for over 2 years, love it
I completely agree about PHEVs. They make far more sense than EVs, and they should have been the norm (as well as normal hybrids) for many years now.
My 2020 Ford Fusion Hybrid was great. It was my first car. Got the SE for $26k U.S. brand new. I didn't have the PHEV, but hybrids can be nice and cheap.
James showing the headroom though 😂😂😂
I love my Tonale PHEV. Fast&Furious in D mode, still fast with great mileage in N mode+"manual" (gear shifter in Drive and pushed to the left; still largely automatic...but I can't not use the lovely hockey st...paddly paddles).
A joy to drive.
Just wait until you hit 10k miles and it starts falling apart. It will go from being a joy to drive, to a joy if it drives
@@TheRealCatof That's slightly after the upcoming first service point. Ask in a few months how it is going.
The fact that the hornet is just a rebadged version of this car and was first to market after Alfa spent all the time and money to develop it is quite sad. Now this car is forever tainted as a "dodge ripoff" when in fact it was the OG. Stellantis really screwed Alfa in the NA market lol
Alfa shouldn't even be in the NA market
It would be really nice to do a review of the 24 Volvo plug ins. S60/xc60/s90/xc90, any of them. They have greatly improved them over the years and this is kind of the final send off for that generation. They are super interesting when you sit down and play with them because they are so simple. But it works really well. This coming from a person who rips through new cars every 6 months.
Honestly, if I were considering buying something like this I would choose this over the Hornet. It looks so much better.
They look the same
I agree phev is the way to go great mpg and decent electric range for daily drives for me it just makes so much sense
Frankly doesn't seem overpriced given how nuts everything is.
Hybrid is definitely the best balance in mainstream commuter cars for right now. There's so many EVs carrying, literally, a ton of batteries around that they never use on their 100 mile daily drives and still don't have the anytime-anywhere-ness you get with ICE for long distances.
You hit the nail on the head, PHEVs make so much more sense than full electric. It’s sad that governments and manufacturers didn’t educate people and push them instead.
My parents drive a phev and they really save a lot on fuel. They are retired, so the car is really only used to go shopping and they never use the gas engine. That pretty much only happens, when they go for a weekend trip or on vacation. So time wise, the car spends 90%+ as as EV. Distance it's roughly 70% EV Kilometers.
I would love a PHEV for that reason. I drive about 15 miles a day round trip for work and could mostly just use gas for the long road trips. Cost just needs to come way down.
What is phev
@@dnice362 Plug-in hybrid EV. They have a certain amount of range you can drive using only the electric motor and no fuel, and you can plug them in at home/work to recharge that range.
@@Shiny_Dragonite eh like the cX90 phev ok got it. We have a CX5 which is actually fantastic and the steering is great, heavy. We need better gas mileage and I think the grand highlander hybrid is top of the list
Yeah but they HAVE to use gas to keep the engine healthy. According to Thomas Toyota said a tank a month for the RAV4 prime, which is 400 miles, or a 100 mile trip a week! That seems excessive.
12:10 it is holding on to the gear because it is in manual mode since Thomas changed it for James to use the padel shifters ;)
Yay another video
Tonale is the name of a mountain in Italy. And it's MITO because of MIlanoTOrino. It's not MAITO, it's MITO. cheers from Italy.
"mito" è chiunque sia riuscito a farsi assumere con una creatività da stivaletti usati. Con tutte le paroli in esistenza, dovevano proprio scegliere un nome proprio, la cui pronuncia sarebbe inevitabilmente stata macellata seduta stante..? Vabbè...
and Veloce it is an adjective and doesn’t mean speed but it means fast, Velocita’ is the word for speed, another Italian in Toronto……
Love the green and new Alfa styling, but agreed this should be a wagon or hatch!
Where i live, there is a Tonale with an identical spec and I have to it’s a good looking car which holds it’s own visually against its competitors
Thomas, stop the fast hand movements, so we can tell which wristwatch you're wearing! 😂 Oh, and a fun & funny review of something I'll never buy.😄
The endinga are always the best lol 😂😂😂
There should be way more PHEVs. I’ve been saying this for years since many automakers announced their EV intentions. Too many of the manufacturers just skipped right over PHEVs in a lot of segments and went full EV, which doesn’t work (yet) for a lot of people. I say this as an EV owner….it works for me, but only because our main road trip vehicle is gas. I would love a Telluride PHEV - wife could commute every day on electric, but it has the untethered range when we go into the back country.
it's because PHEV makes too much sense. People these days hate logic.
looks nice
I had an alfa romeo brera nice car now i have an alpine A110 its borderline criminal that you haven't reviewed it yet, if you come to Madrid i would be pleased to lend it to you
Looks good
As someone that used to completely hate hybrids, having a PHEV finally makes sense. Full Electric still needs to much more work to be practical.
Plug in is absolutely the way to go.
Nice new Pelagos FXD on the wrist there btw
That rear view mirror sure has a nice looking bezel.
Thomas says smaller, James say smooler
Meant for young folks but costs CA$60k. Makes total sense.
I traded my 2016 Dodge Challenger SXT w/52k miles for $12.5k to get my 2024 Hornet R/T, which lowered my out the door cost to $39.5k. Without the trade-in, I wouldn't have been able to afford it. I was spending $100 a month on 87-octane fuel with the Chanenger. Even though the Hornet requires 92-octane, I'm only spending $25 dollars a month. Hornet's turbo gets quite hot when running around in "Sport" mode, and I've made it a habit to open the hood when I get home to help cool off the 1.3L.
Why on earth would you buy a V6 charger and then the worst crossover on the market?
Please, do the bare amount of research next time you buy a car
@@TheRealCatof Ford Explorer is the worst SUV on the market, and I never owned a charger. Stop being a troll.
@@coastiebrian2024 Challenger charger, same thing.
@@TheRealCatof Not knowing the difference doesn't explain why you're a troll? Why do you care what I drive?
@@coastiebrian2024 The only difference is one has 2 doors and the other has 4.
And when bad products are rewarded it affects everyone, that's how economics work.
the license plate says "green vehicle" and i feel like thats pretty apt 😂😂
Lol
I had AR Stelvio for a year and could never get used to it’s multimedia, it really seems like the guy who made it was stoned as hell, nothing was even close intuitive. And those brakes, I will never forget how it could change the braking force despite your constant effort on the pedal. And it’s suspension which held you on the fringe of rollover on every single turn. I think suv topic is just kind of new for Italians, but they try 😂
Thanks for reviewing ❤
What would have been neat is if the Tonale was lower to the ground more like a hot hatchback and functioned as an entry level Alfa Romeo like an Audi A3 fighter. Like you both said actually
In the US the math is hard because iirc the pricing between the Tonale and Hornet are fairly close?
Funny about the front license plate holder. I had a 2011 Camaro that didn't have one. Never put a front plate on it and never got any grief over it. I live in BC and we're supposed to have front plates. Drove it for 3 years and the only mention of it was crossing the border into the US.
I haven't run a front plate in... well ever. I've removed the front plate from every car I've ever owned. That said, these guys making a point to complain about it is pretty sad.
Maybe it doesn't want to shift because you are still in manual mode? I can't really tell.
I'm driving PHEV Tonale as a loaner. It seems it has no overtaking power. Does it need to be in dynamic with a fully charged battery to have that power?
I still think this shade of green is the best color option for cars on sale right now.
Wagons r king
Wagon > saloon/coupe > suv > running > walking > crossover
Problem with the example with your friend with the RAV4 PHEV is that it’s so much more expensive than the normal hybrid RAV4 that it’s really hard to recover the price difference in petrol savings. And electricity is not free either. We went with the normal RAV4. Another benefit? No plugging in cables all the time.
Would love to see the review what Mazda Cx90 phev or Cx60 phev
Well on that note
Turn signal makes me giggle I like it
I can't be the only one that calls it a "Me-toe" rather than a "My-toe".
And you’re right, since MiTo is short for MilanoTorino.
Can’t wait for this to have a QV version with hurricane engine 500horsepower be fun
The way he kept using the paddle shifters took me out 🤣🤣
I like it
11:00 It's call the Mini Cooper Plugman, or Plugsport.
Anyone else hear james accent melt away when he said Car 😂
I love your videos but even for a quick review a bit more serious information about the spec of the card would have been nice.
Why? This is one of those joke cars. You're not going to buy one, I'm certainly not going to buy one. Nobody is going to buy one.
Automated subtitles wrote „this is the toenail“. Quite the chuckle for me
Tudor FXD!
The Honda cry was soo close to doing something great as far as hybrid and plug in and synergy of fun and economy, Honda should’ve kept evolving thst
Matt Farah has been signing the praises of the plug in hybrid for a long time now and glad to see other reviewers are also seeing the benefits
🤮 Matt pharaoh
@@Tmrfe0962 why the hate for Matt ?
@@Notachancepoopypants ya know, he just rubs me the wrong way….I ought to keep my opinions to myself. But I’m sorry I can’t listen to him on spikes car radio…or anything else, just can’t listen to his reviews, mostly his self serving commentary.
@@Tmrfe0962 I don’t love everything he says or does. He certainly can be a pompous ass but I do think he makes some good points and I appreciate his automotive opinions. He recently embarrassed himself by going after cammisa which promptly blew up in his face
While these do look good, the price is what is going to keep people away. You can get a Stelvio for the same price (if not cheaper when they are trying to get rid of them) for more space and you don't have to worry about all the issues that these have been having (hornet as well). Also with the price the equivalent Hornet makes more sense if you want this vehicle. I do love that color so much though.
Only driven the Stelvio but by all accounts it drives better as well.
@@regal842that’s what I’ve heard; if you want an SUV the Stelvio is great. If you want something smaller, the Giulia is also great
just saw one om the road accually has more road present than i thought
I like the look of that interior, looks wise, I've never sat in one so I'll take your word for the complexity of the tech and somewhat less premium materials, looks wise alone though it's good both inside and out, it looks 70k even if it doesn't feel it.
ignore them. I spent the weekend driving one (the Hornet version) cross-state. It's at least as comfortable as my wife's $80k Mercedes SUV, handles better, and gets much better gas mileage. It was the first time I spent so many hours driving and actually enjoyed it.
Well it looks like it has decent ground clearance for slightly deeper snow. That's all I can say that's positive.
I think based on the few Italian flag applications on the side mirrors and below the shift knop (and I think in the back bumper lower part middle) this is a Veloce Tributo Italiano Trim. Not sure if that one is a standalone trim version or an option within the higher Veloce trim. I know that there is currently specific TRUBUTO ITALIANO trim for the 100th Anniversary of Alfa Romeo.
PHEV is nice but I have concerns regarding the fact the cumbustor engine only kicks in at higher speed/rpm without the oil temp being at least at 70 Degrees Celsius- that doesn't seem healthy for the engine durability in the long run
That indicator click sounds like an Olympic ping pong match
My friend told me one time when we were joking about the reliability of Alfas, regarding the Guilia Troglafolgliolgiloglio that someone wrote in a forum were people were talking about how unreliable the Gulia was, "I've had over 1800 trouble free miles!"
Like how you mangled the foglio bit😂
Nobody cares
Actually todays Alfas are not more or less reliable than its european competitors and you can find bad forum posts about every car. Besides of that i dont think that a forum is a reliable source.
I sometimes make "Extra Throttle House Quick Reviews" "Extra Throttle House Extra Quick Reviews" by playing them at 1.25x speed.
Does it have the same premium plastic sway bar links?
I saw plastic sway bar links on some car decades ago... Can't remember what car it was though.
I don't think they are under an awful lot of stress.
@@volvo09 They’re under an awful lot of stress all right… the sway bar is a chief mechanism for resisting body roll. Hence the name.
If you could get this color with the Hornet, it would be the green hornet?
I’d rather get a new Prius
The turn signal sounds like the ticking clocks at the beginning of Time by Pink Floyd.
If I’ve said it once I’ve said it 100 times: *The Tonale came first and Dodge made the Hornet as the cheap copy*
In that category it’s probably the one I’d take- although needing a 3 row SUV- I’m not a buyer in that category.
That said I did nearly bite the bullet on a used Stelvio QV, and was willing to give up extra space in back.
this would be a great rental car
Come on guys, we all know Canadian dollars are worth the same as Fallout bottle caps
I do like sitting high up when I drive. Got a problem with that?
It’s a good looking SUV, maybe Alfa will come out with the Tonale Quadrifoglio.
I live on the outskirts of a reasonably sized city in the middle of The UK; I have never seen one of these on the road, in the wild.
I am 100% with Thomas on PHEV or pure ICE being the only play right now. With charging networks, standards, and battery tech, we are in a transitional phase and things are going to change rapidly. I would not want to have an EV only vehicle right now. I like that you can reserve battery capacity and use it when you want to. For around town, the range is enough for most day to day commuting. I need this in minivan form, then I would have it alongside my Giulia.
Disagree that it's 'the only play right now'. May not be the best choice for everyone, but for many drivers it's already a better option compared to ICE. We went all EV 2 years ago and neither of us ever wants to own an ICE vehicle again. That the tech is still developing rapidly only means that my next EV will be an even better choice relative to ICE.
@@MLHunt It also means that your current car will be absolutely worthless in another generation of battery tech lol. Theres a reason 2013 Tesla Model S are being sold for sub 15k rn.
@@pieswimmer1 I tend to buy cars and keep them until the wheels fall off and the residual value is close to 0 in any case. Most of the depreciation of most cars occurs in the first few years of ownership, so buying a car and getting rid of it after a few years has always seemed like a mug's game to me. So this isn't really a concern for me.
The car will only be worthless if I plan to sell it. I plan to keep it until its range has degraded to a point at which it no longer serves my needs, which shouldn't be anytime soon.
Why should the improvement in battery tech in new cars impact the utility of a car I own already? I charge at home 90+% of the time and very rarely need to drive >100 miles in a day. So the car I have should serve me well into the future even with some range degradation. Why would I get rid of it as long as it serves my needs, even if newer cars charge faster and go further on a charge? I honestly don't understand people's thinking on this.
I have owned a PHEV, BEV, HEV, and gas-only vehicle in the last year.
The PHEV is the most practical by a landslide.
BEV has one major downside - but it’s on the way up - charging on the road absolutely sucks, it’s just not ready for most people yet. Charging at home is FANTASTIC though, so if you have the option it’s not a bad one.
HEV is still a great choice, great efficiency, affordability, reliability, and power.
Gas-only is such a crappy way to be in 2024.
@@FuncleChuck I love my EVs and can't see ever owning a petrol vehicle again, but they still only really work well for people who can charge at home and/or or have relatively low-mileage use cases. For all people complain about the public charging networks though, they've gotten a lot better even in the past couple years since we got ours, and at the current rate of development owning one will be entirely suitable for most Americans.
Was this recorded on a cellphone?
Is it the only plug-in hybrid version sold in America, Canada? since it is the Veloce… if you want to spend less money, get the more relaxed one,if available.
If you want to save money, don't buy an unreliable Alfa
why do the chimes sound like its about to land?