With my driving habits electric is twice as expensive as gas.
This is assuming electricity is free and gas is more expensive than it is now. The electric cars are luxuriously expensive to buy, even if cheaper to operate.
Electricity for my EV is 8x cheaper than my old V6 per mile. It’s 4x cheaper than my wife’s PHEV when it’s using gas, 2x as cheap when in electric. Even if you’re burning through tires you’re straight up speaking FUD.
Most of my driving is longer range, a lot of it in the winter, actual winter, I live really far up north.
An EV that gets me home in the winter is about twice as expensive to buy as a gas car that is good enough, both used. Difference in deprecation alone is more than my fuel costs.
I’d have to drive 50% more to justify electric over gas.
I just picked up a new VW awd electric and its lease is less cost to me than the 4 banger vw I leased back in 2021. CA EV incentives are still going strong down in the states.
Used ones lose value faster than gas cars because people want the newest tech. Pretty sure the EV community posted something about 2022s for under $20k
With my driving habits electric is twice as expensive as gas.
This is assuming electricity is free and gas is more expensive than it is now. The electric cars are luxuriously expensive to buy, even if cheaper to operate.
Electricity for my EV is 8x cheaper than my old V6 per mile. It’s 4x cheaper than my wife’s PHEV when it’s using gas, 2x as cheap when in electric. Even if you’re burning through tires you’re straight up speaking FUD.
Most of my driving is longer range, a lot of it in the winter, actual winter, I live really far up north.
An EV that gets me home in the winter is about twice as expensive to buy as a gas car that is good enough, both used. Difference in deprecation alone is more than my fuel costs.
I’d have to drive 50% more to justify electric over gas.
So you have a use case that isn’t the norm.
Anyone who only drives a modest amount of miles every year purchase price is almost always the dominant factor.
I just picked up a new VW awd electric and its lease is less cost to me than the 4 banger vw I leased back in 2021. CA EV incentives are still going strong down in the states.
Used ones lose value faster than gas cars because people want the newest tech. Pretty sure the EV community posted something about 2022s for under $20k