Many years ago, we went to see the BMW EV i3 and we couldn’t believe the not so attractive looking car cost $50k. We’ve never looked back. Here in Silicon Valley, BMW has always been a status make as well as Mercedes, quite a lot of people who couldn’t afford the car New would buy […]
Category: Being Frugal
How to save and spend efficiently
We refinanced our mortgage from 4.5% to 3.5% 30 years fixed almost 4 years ago. Due to the COVID-19, the interest rate went down to the point that’s too good to pass, 2.1% to 2.5%. We would like to share the experience of refinancing online vs mortgage brokers. The online brokers have low overhead, therefore […]
If you live in the Bay Area, you would noticed there are more Teslas than the popular Honda Accords or Toyota Camrys at least per our perception of daily commuting to/from work. It seems the Bay Area is full of Green people or just people following a fad. Tesla cars are no doubt high tech, […]
April 13, 2020 / 87 views / Being Frugal | EV (Electric Vehicle)
FasTrak CAV Transponder Malfunctioned Causes Malicious Charges
If you live in the Bay Area, chances are you use 880 and 237 often to go to the East Bay. If you own an EV, now you’re required to use CAV transponder from FasTrak to even use the freeways. So, as good citizens as we are, we ordered them and found out they’re not […]
Living in Silicon Valley or CA as a whole, we do have lots of incentive to drive an EV (Electric Vehicle), with federal tax credit of $7500, rebate $2500 and $800, that’s a total of $10800 off the price of any qualified EV, we can also get the CarPool purple sticker expires Jan 2023. Last […]
Apple iPhones are getting very expensive, we’ve been buying used and refurbished 6’s for a few years now. This year, we have a friend who works for Apple and could buy for friends and family with 15% discount from the list prices, which is very nice. Even with the discounts + tax still costs $742 […]
We’re slowly moving to all EV (Electric Vehicles) for our fleet. My mother in-law 2004 Honda Accord’s starting to fail more often, CEL (Check Engine Light) and Power Door Lock not functioning. I think Honda quality for this series is bad, anyhow, it’s time to get an EV for her so no more car maintenance, […]
We bought again after . We liked the car and its reliability. We did the range test with the car and it really got 128 miles which is quite good for what we need. Since it doesn’t come with spare or anything, we will get a fix a flat tire kit to put in the […]
