What dealers do you have close to you that you trust/like?
For me, I think the fisker will be out for a year if not two. New/startup company, no dealers/service centers for warranty work yet.
Do you have a 240 volt outlet in your garage? Do you have enough electric panel to have a 240 volt outlet/EVSE (charger) in your garage ? Things to ponder.
If you do have a nema 14-50 outlet in your garage you would be good for quite some time.
You may look at your electricity providers website and see if they have a EV time of use plan. There is a chance overnight you could get low or even free electricity to charge it. There seems to be more and more of these plans available.
If we had a crystal ball and knew the price of gas versus electric in 5 years, it would help make a decision also.
I have power available at the box, but I'd need to have an electrician run the circuit to the garage for any of the EV or PHEV options, figuring the cost of that, including the associated EV plug is going to run me $2000
Multiple Toyota dealers in the area are all good. Hyundai dealers closest to me are both owned by a family I don't like, but the 3rd closest dealer is the one I'd use and it is not all that far away.
Sort of falls in the choice that I can't make. IF there was a Toyota Venza PHEV, or a Toyota Crown PHEV, that was priced only a couple grand above the Venza or Crown hybrid, and they got about 40-ish miles of EV per charge, then those would likely be my first choices in vehicles. 40 miles would get my wife to groceries and back, with a enough room to spare to stop at a couple other places and never require the ICE. And there are a lot of errands that are within that 40 mile range. Most of the PHEVs have a 25-30 mile range, with means the ICE engine would be needed just for a simple multi-destination errand run. So just that little difference makes a world of difference in actual use. Toyota has a RAV 4 PRIME, which is a PHEV, that gets 40 miles EV, but I'm not a fan of the little RAV 4. Just a little too little of what I want. Same size as the Venza, but not quite as nicely featured, and I'm 60+ years old so creature comforts are more important to me than 'rugged looks'
All that said, since I can't get what I want, the next best option seems to be the least economical, largest, and what appears to be the most fully featured vehicle of the bunch and that is the Hyundai Santa Fe. The outgoing 2023 is nicer than the Venza in every way, more spacious than the Venza, but ugly and LESS economical. The incoming 2023 Santa Fe is strikingly good looking, appears to be nicer than the Venza, Crown and the Fisker Ocean in terms of features and luxury, but again, appears that it will lack in fuel economy with an expected 30mpg while the Venza/Crown are at 40mpg and the Ocean is at 340 miles per charge. For right about $50k, 30mpg and a lot of luxury, comfort and a slightly larger size seems like a good trade off because the Fisker Ocean will end up at $60-$62k with a wall charger and delivery fees. Again, $10,000 up front will pay for a lot of gasoline, even at $4+ per gallon.
Staring at $4 per gallon for gas, and probably $5.5 by the time our gubmint is done fucking us over with their green energy initiatives, makes looking at EV more viable, not convinced the tech is here yet for what I want but it is getting very close. So maybe this vehicle will be a hybrid and the pick up truck, a couple years down the road, will be traded in on an EV?
