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 ...
“I’m surprised this article got past Yahoo’s editors.”
I think in Europe they’re beyond the point of having trick people to buy EVs, as they now have the laws in place to MANDATE the use of EVs.
Of course we’re just one election away from the same, but I still cannot take Trump, such a brash guy, so I guess I’ll have to vote for Harris, which is still better than Trump tweets.
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EV owners can fill up at home while sleeping.
EV ,the disposable razor of transport
Do you own Tesla stock?
What is going on with the EV propaganda?
The .gov has put their thumbs on the scale—which means I will not buy one.
If they allowed the free market to work—no subsidies, no propaganda—then I might reconsider.
From what I’ve read, you’re lucky if tires on an electric car get 30k miles. Most need replaced at 25k or less..
To feel good about saving planet earth is worth it.
As the article says, you pay double while you sleep.
“Would be nice to see the costs when slow charging at home.”
The article quotes 3.3 miles per kwhr. At 12 cents per kwhr that is 3.6 cents per mile. 35 miles would be $1.26. A gas car getting 35mpg would be about $3.20.
Some utilities offer a flat rate monthly charge. Duke has a $19.99 fee for up to 800 kwhrs. That is 2.5 cents per kwhr.
IOWs, 87 cents to go 35 miles.
“Do you own Tesla stock?
What is going on with the EV propaganda?”
Stick with the facts
“From what I’ve read, you’re lucky if tires on an electric car get 30k miles. Most need replaced at 25k or less..”
Read some more.
“As the article says, you pay double while you sleep.”
Wrong. See #28.
OK—give me one fact.
Do you own Tesla stock?
Yeah, but think of the virtue display points!
EVs are for fags.
“OK—give me one fact.
Do you own Tesla stock?”
That is irrelevant to the technical discussion.
“No way the grid will ever support everybody driving EVs.”
I read that for all cars to be electric, current draw on the Grid would go up by 900%. Good luck with that.
Think about what comes if Trump Wins
Another good reason in a long list of reasons not to own an EV. So...how do we get certain people in our government educated as to this fact so they will quit promoting them? I think the manufacturers have mostly figured it out by now, at least in an economic sense.
“EVs are for fags.”
We have Freeper EV owners.
Fags.
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