I like electric cars for the evolving technology. My current car has a range of about 290 miles if all freeway at 65 mph. Around home (Reno) I have a range of up to 345 miles. I charge at night for .05 per kwh. My battery holds 77.4 kwh so 77.4 x .05=$3.87 to go from 290-345 miles. At fast chargers I can go from 20 to 80% charge in 18 minutes but it will cost .31/kWh (plus $4 per month) or about $24 to go between 290-345 miles. The electric car is great for local driving. Maybe okay for occasional long trips. The problem is that leftists think that electricity can be generated from windmills, solar and unicorn flatulation. Eventually, when everyone starts using electric cars the cost of electricity will sky rocket. I see why people on FR are against electric car subsidies. I don’t understand why all the hostility against electric cars. Not all of us are climate change wackos. A few years ago I saw a Prius with a bumper sticker that said “Saving my money for ammo”.
My nephew has two EVs and loves them. Like you, he understands both the negatives and positives of EVs and they fit his individual needs.
What’s largely unknown about Teslas (his brand) is their performance. Teslas are the modern version of muscle cars. Literally bad ass.
Got to compare “apples to apples”....your 5 cents/kWh night rate is probably subsidized by tax payers/rate payers to encourage “greenness”. My CA average per kWh is ~30 cents/kWh. (complicated by “Baseline Tier” quantities that change seasonally)(Baseline Tier @ 28.24 cents/kWh and “Reg. Tier” @ 35.5 cents/kWh). I have heard/read that chemically/energy wise one gallon of gas equals 33.7 kWh of electricity, so in my part of CA (Central Valley/PG&E) that would mean that the equivalent of one gallon in gas would be about $10.00 in electricity. So how far can an average electric vehicle go on 33.7 kWh? (Eq. of one gallon of gas). Based on what you said in your post around 150 miles? So about 6.7 cents a mile in electricity for an EV. The average midsize Camry gets about 30 mpg at say $4.90/gallon so about 16 cents/mile. So I guess the “break-even” point for a 30 mpg vehicle in gas prices is about $2.08/gallon...at least at CA electric prices. Not an electrical engineer, these #’s subject to revision by EE Freepers! ;-)