Red Badger: Nonsense! Electricity is FREE! It comes from Solar Panels, Windmills, and Unicorn Farts!..................and that socket on my wall...............
For the record, my utility charged 16¢/kWh on the past couple of power bills (after adding the fuel charge per kWh and the 4% state tax). Of that I get about 3.2 miles per kWh in my EV (after some loss converting AC to DC). So if you lived in my area and had an EV like mine it'd cost you about $5 to drive 100 miles.
My wife and I drove our EV about 26,000 miles in the past 12 months, with 16,000 of them charged at home. Without solar it would have added $800 to our power bills to drive those 16,000 miles (monthly that's $67 to drive 1,300 miles). Thus the savings per mile is real if you drive the EV enough each year and do most of your charging at home. With decentralized solar providing 80% of our power for free in the past 12 months (buying only 20% of our power from the grid), those 16,000 miles added only $160 to our power bills ($13 per month to charge the EV for 1,300 miles per month).
But that's not using an EV and solar like the Dims push it where only more government can save us. That's me thinking with a self-reliance mindset and using anything I can think of to make me and my family less dependent on things the Dims over-regulate.
Well you’re just one person.
You should do what my friend does. She charges her EV at the grocery store where it’s *free*, so saves her money from charging at home (in her solar-powered detached garage).
Amortize the cost of the solar into the electricity used, subtracting the subsidies?