Get towed, hook it up to a charger and wait 8-10 hours. Or buy the can, a gallon of gas and drive to the gas station, fill up and you’re on your way. Until that equation changes EVs will be an expensive urban only luxury.
If we hadn’t already invested in a gas SUV the equation may work for my wife in Canada.
Drives 108 kms a day to work and back highway to another town. Cost is about $25 CAD a day, or $410 a month lets say.
So if we are saving 75% then our savings are $308 a month. After warranty and taxes our Honda Pilot was $25,000 but had to do a bunch of work on it so lets say $28,000. Cost of entry level Tesla and tax = 61,600. So at 3700 savings a year it would take 9 years to pay it back.
We also get a beautiful Tesla out of it. Although, my wife also brings 5 to 7 people up each day in the vehicle so not sure how that would work with the Tesla.
Yep. When you go out to the desert, an extra gas can is good to take. Are you going to take a charging station with you out there?
Here’s a interesting way that owning an electric vehicle actually worked for my sister: a guy from California came out to Utah to take a management position in the company she works at. He brought out his electric BMW SUV, got concerned when he saw how few charging stations the state of Utah has, and sold it to her for $15,000. This dude must be too rich to care because when he sold it to her, it was a year used and he bought it for like $80,000. Her company parking lot has a few charging stations that they can use for free, she and one other person are the only ones who use it. Works great as a commute vehicle and maybe a run to mini-mart. They have a conventional Ford Explorer that they use on the weekends to go mountain biking and hiking and whatnot. I guess the only question is when to cut it loose because it’s too expensive to maintain. She’ll probably sell it for a song when it needs a new battery.