[Red Badger]

Add in the cost of more tires.

EVs are way heavier than normal automobiles, so tire wear is cut by a third.......................

[KC Burke]

If my family member’s mistake on tire inflation is any judge, the number of Tesla users with proper inflation is 10%. I do agree that the EVs eat tires but it gets even worse as some of the tires need 45 psi and it is rare to find them at that pressure on a vehicle used by a Greenie.

[from occupied ga]

I was avoiding capital and maintenance costs, because I don't have good data and I don't want to take the time to dig it up, but you're absolutely right about the tires, and furthermore the increase in weight causes an EV to use more energy per mile - back when the EPA was first starting to publish mileage figures, the main component of their formula was vehicle weight.

And just going by my car the engine and transaxle together weigh about 657 lb and the fuel (18 gal tank on average 3/4 full times 6 lb/gallon) adds another 81 lb so my drive train 738 lbs according to the EV fanboys the typical EV motor weights about 90 lb, and a 100kwh battery weighs 1377 lb Rounding EV drive train = about 1470 lb -738 = 732lb extra dead weight that an EV has to drag around and btw my car's hp rating is 650 and it weighs 3540 lb approximately ( less if I clean it) gets about 25mpg hiway (if I'm careful) and about 16 mpg around town