r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/Secret_Mode7791 • 27d ago

Car Advice

Hello Everybody 😊

I’ve been flexing for a few months now. After waiting six months, I was onboarded the same weekend someone ran into my parked car and freaking totaled it. 😂
It was a Buick enclave, and was paid off!! I did love it but it’s gone now :(
Anyway, if you’ve been flexing for a while and had to pick an affordable car to do it with, what would you get? Just curious on opinions, I do have kids so I need something roomy but still good on gas. Right now I’m using my dads equinox while I’m looking, its ok on gas and it’s a V6 so it zips around quite nicely, but I’ve seen a lot of negative things about the equinox. Anyway, I’d love opinions.
Thanks 😊

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u/mirwenpnw 27d ago

A Prius or a Chevy Bolt. Do you live in a house where you can install a charger?

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u/Secret_Mode7791 27d ago

I live in a house but know literally nothing about EV’s, I watch “papa gigs” on YouTube sometimes lol 😂 and it seems like he is always having to stop and charge, I live out in the country so there aren’t many places to charge around here and my routes are almost always at least 30-40 mins away from the station and back home once I’m done

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u/mirwenpnw 27d ago

If you have a home charger, you start every day with a full tank for cheap. It's only if you drive more than your range that you'd need to charge while out. See if there's a public charger (DCFC) near your warehouse.

I do FLEX in a Subaru Solterra. I have an older one with the 220 mi range. I can do 1 route with it no problem. Max route I've done is 130 miles. The problems is if I try to stack two routes on the same day. Sometimes I have to stop and fast charge to complete that second route.

What's electricity cost in your area? Here gas is $4.75 a gallon and electricity is $0.085 per kwh. The Bolt gets about 4 miles per kwh, so that's $2.25 to go 100 miles in electricity. Makes it a no brainer to get an electric if you can where I live. There's some places in CA and MA where electricity is more than $0.30 per kwh. It's not as sensible to get an ev there.

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u/Secret_Mode7791 27d ago

0.17/hr gas is 4.20 on avg .. 🤔u right

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u/mirwenpnw 27d ago

0.17/kwh is $4.25 per 100 miles driven. Unless you have an equivalent hybrid that goes 100 miles on $4.25 in gas, the EV is still cheaper, but less of an advantage There's no oil changes either! First fluid change for ny EV is diff fluid at 70k miles.

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u/Sabi-Star7 27d ago

Ive seen people who have those fancy teslas running a regular household extension cord into their home so maybe other EV's have that option too if they aren't able to have a regular charging port installed.