Posted on 09/24/2024 7:47:47 AM PDT by george76
Electric cars are up to twice as expensive as petrol or diesel vehicles to run...
Running an electric vehicle (EV) can cost more than 24p per mile, while a diesel vehicle is 12.5p .. 80p per kilowatt hour ...
A typical electric car will travel 3.3 miles for every kWh of electricity used, meaning rapid and ultra-rapid chargers currently cost the equivalent of 24.1p per mile.
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This is about double the average diesel car, which will do 43 miles per gallon, resulting in a cost of 12.5p per mile at current prices. A typical petrol car costs 14.5p per mile,...
A return journey from London to Penzance would cost £148 in an electric car using rapid chargers .. compared with £77 in a diesel car and £89 using petrol.
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prices at rapid chargers have increased by 5 per cent over the past year, despite a 30 per cent decrease in the wholesale cost of electricity.
This has coincided with a fall in the price of oil.
Even drivers who choose slower public chargers – the threshold is 50 Wh of power, allowing a full recharge in around 30 minutes – are paying more per mile than petrol and diesel drivers.
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recent figures show sales of electric cars have significantly slowed.
They account for 17.2 per cent of all new registrations since the beginning of 2024. This marks a decrease from the 18.7 per cent high in the latter half of 2022.
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rapid and ultra-rapid chargers currently cost electric car drivers the equivalent of 24.1p per mile, while slower chargers cost the equivalent of 16.4p per mile.
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Sales of electric cars in Europe are performing even worse than in the UK, with figures showing registrations were down by 44 per cent in August.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Tesla means Stupid.
I’m surprised this article got past Yahoo’s editors.
Expensive to run, depreciate quickly, cannot be economically repaired, no resale value, limited range, poor performance in cold weather and may burst into flames.
The EVs are quite heavy due to the size of the battery required. I’m hearing that they go through tires at a very high rate.
Is it safe to travel to Penzance or is it still infested with pirates?
Tesla ( Musk) is not stupid. They have collared the good market (rich Americans) and make their money from carbon offsets.
EV’s as substitutes for gas and diesel cars are stupid, so the stupidity is the governments that mandate these vehicles.
Tesla ( Musk) is not stupid. They have collared the good market (rich Americans) and make their money from carbon offsets.
All the Dot Indians who live in my neighborhood drive them.
His buyers are stupid earth worshipers.
Would be nice to see the costs when slow charging at home. Interesting the Greens want to limit electricity production to unreliable sources, so what does that do to your transportation reliability? Except for the higher cost, government subsidies, lack of recycling, fire issues, lack of range and easy fast recharging, I have no real issues with EVs and their owners. To each their own……
30 minute recharge? No thanks!
No way the grid will ever support everybody driving EVs.
The whole point is to get rid of all personal transportation.
But other than that, a great car! 😆
a large number of households in the UK – almost half – live in either terraced properties or flats, meaning they cannot use a driveway or garage to allow charging at home.
But they’re lovely virtue signaling devices!
Every time that I drive past a charging station, I smile, thinking just how lucky I am to not have to wait 30 minutes or more, often in a DEI area without anyone else around, when my gasoline car needs to ‘fill up’.
I also smile because I can drive on a set of tires at least twice as long, knowing that the amount of microscopic particles that I’m leaving on road surfaces, to be washed into our rivers and streams, is half or less per mile than an EV.
“The EVs are quite heavy due to the size of the battery required. I’m hearing that they go through tires at a very high rate.”
Tesla Model 3: 3582 pounds
Toyota Camry: 3585 pounds
“Tesla means Stupid.”
Is it a stretch to say Tesla is stupid spelled backward?
If I bought an EV I’d get a Tesla.
In before our resident Leftists check-in to tell us about the wonders of EVs!!!
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