GRAND Magazine - Winter 2024 - 17
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What I did for love
BY KAREN L. RANCOURT
" What I Did for Love " is a popular song composed by
Martin Hamlisch for A Chorus Line, which premiered on
Broadway in 1975. This is my rendition of what I did for love.
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ary, my husband of 57 years, hopefully,
inquired, " Would you do this for me? Just go
look at one? " The " one " thing he wanted me
to look at was an electric vehicle (EV).
I suppressed my groan and cheerfully said, " Sure,
we can go look at one. " Gary responded, " Great!
When can we go? "
The topic of getting an EV has been coming up
periodically for the past two years. I had many concerns
about getting one, including:
It is too complicated for me to drive.
The battery running out of charge, leaving me
isolated somewhere; this is known as " range anxiety. "
Long charge times.
Lack of convenient charging stations.
Higher upfront costs.
Truth be told, I was perfectly happy driving the
ten-year-old Mercedes sedan we had purchased
eight years earlier. Yes, it was getting along in years
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(aren't we all?), and yes, repairs on it
are expensive, and yes, newer technology
made for safer driving. This last point
convinced me I should at least be open to
upgrading to a newer model.
We agreed that if I remained opposed to an
EV after test-driving one, we would go to the
Mercedes dealer and look at later-model, used gasoline-fueled
ones. In my mind, we would do the EV
thing and go directly to the Mercedes dealer.
One requirement was that I refused to consider
the most popular EV on the road for personal/
political reasons. Gary was okay with this restriction
because he wanted us to look at something called
the Hyundai Ioniq 6, citing that it won World Car of
the Year at the New York Auto Show.
Okay, I thought, let's get this done, and off we
went to the Hyundai dealer. James, our sales guy,
was young, friendly, and well-informed. He and Gary
immediately hit it off, getting deeper and deeper
into this and that of the technology and the car's
various features. The Ioniq 6 sedan comes in three
models. I got behind the wheel of the least expensive
model and drove it. Although I was intimidated
by the dashboard - in my mind, it resembled the
dashboard in a commercial jet - with James patiently
guiding me, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy
and comfortable it was to drive. I assumed it would
be sluggish, but it was very peppy.
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