Let’s put the cost factor in there. No one has come up with the actual cost to fuel these beasts.
“Let’s put the cost factor in there. No one has come up with the actual cost to fuel these beasts.”
Nor disposal. You don’t just put used battery packs through shredders and stick what comes out in a furnace.
EV's aren't for everyone. And I hate the Dims trying to force them on people. But for what it's worth, my EV costs about 4.7¢ for every mile driven. So to drive it 400 miles costs about $18.80. (I chose 400 miles for this example because that's about how far I drive my ICE pickup before filling it up.) Calculations for the cost per mile are below if interested.
My EV gets on average a hair over 3 miles/kWh even with powering AC/heat/lights. It gets more mileage than that as registered from the EV's dashboard, but my "hair over 3 miles/kWh" takes into account at least a 5% loss of power converting AC power from my wall to DC power as the EV's charge controller charges the battery. (Half the time I charge my EV I set it to its slowest setting, which can lose up to 10% during the conversion. But that has to do with me having solar and wanting the total load of whatever appliances I run at a single point in time to stay within the capacity of my solar inverters so they don't have to pull power from the grid as often. Most EV owners don't have solar and, therefore, charge at home at the fastest rate possible to improve the efficiency in converting AC power to DC power. When I do that, my loss is 5% during the AC-to-DC conversion.)
On the past 4 months my power bills (in Alabama, with a flat rate and not rates varying at times of day) said I was paying a hair over 14¢/kWh for each kWh added to my bill (after first subtracting the fixed monthly fees and tax I'd pay regardless of how much power I bought that month). 14¢ ÷ 3 miles = 4.7¢/mile.