If a person owns a serviceable gas powered car, it's better to keep it in good repair than to buy a new one.
> There is no good economics in buying an electric car. This is especially so for the average wage earner who doesn’t have lots of tax deductions and a personal accountant.
> If a person owns a serviceable gas powered car, it’s better to keep it in good repair than to buy a new one.
In liberal circles, this is regarded as an urgent problem, not a viable solution.
:-( :-(
EV vs gas car
miles per kWh vs mpg
cost per kWh from power company vs cost per gallon of gas
What kind of gas car is the EV comparing against? (I.e. if you're like me you haven't made a car payment in years because it's much more affordable for me to replace my old used car with another used car, so mind and my wife's current gas cars get not-so-great mpg, but no car payments either, but I expect to replace her car in a year or two anyway, so I'm expecting to pay $8K to $10K to replace it with another used gas car unless we get an EV. With that in mind, a $40K EV "feels" like only $30K compared to buying another used gas car.)
That's not even getting into things like if you plan to take many long trips per year in it because you're retired (in which case charging on the road is more expensive than charging at home) or if virtually all of your charging is at home (in which case charging costs are based on how much you pay your power company per kWh and how many miles the EV will get per kWh).
I crunched the numbers and an EV is affordable for me for one reason only: I have a large solar system and could probably charge it for free about 30% of the miles I drive. If it wasn't for that, an EV probably would barely be on the threshold of being worth it -- not worth the risk of buying one and hope the whole EV thing isn't just a bad fad.
Like everything else, they work for some folks and not so much for other folks. We happen to be other folks. And also “NON GMO”.