While on our recent road trip in Jeanine’s 2016 BMW X1, we crossed the 100,000-mile threshold. It remains in excellent working order, and it just got a set of four new tires. Even so, we decided it was time for Jeanine to get a new car. It is also an opportunity to divest ourselves of the last remaining carbon-emitting thing in our lives, hence the decision to get an all-electric vehicle. Car shopping is not Jeanine’s thing so I narrowed the set of choices. She has been happy with the mid-size SUV format of the X1 so I down selected for that configuration. The cars I recommended; Volvo EX30, Audi Q4 Etron, VW ID4, Tesla Model Y, Kia EV6. The Volvo was her first pick but will not be available until later next year. The VW is on a sales hold while a door handle defect is corrected (no telling when). Our mutual feelings about Elon Musk precluded the Tesla from consideration as well as my prior issues with the Model X I briefly owned. The Kia was rejected for questionable styling attributes. That left us with the Audi Q4 Etron the baby brother of my Etron. Jeanine insisted I check for a used car before looking at new ones, something I felt would be a waste of time given that the Q4 was just introduced last year. She did not want the pressure of having to worry about being ultra careful with a new car. Low and behold, we found exactly one used car in the color she wanted at a dealer in Connecticut. I made the 100 mile trip to East Windsor, inspected the car for damage, and did a test drive. If not for the 10,000 miles on the odometer, the car was indistinguishable from new and was the fully loaded Prestige 50 Quattro all-wheel drive version with a range of 236 miles. After some price negotiation, I purchased the car and it will be delivered to us in Concord in about two weeks.