I agree with John Brewer, especially on the energy policy and the fact that the article is wrong, it is not cheaper to fuel a ICE vehicle. The article is correct that it is more expensive to use commercial chargers (fast chargers really since the regular ones are not so expensive), but they assume everyone runs around using those consta…
I agree with John Brewer, especially on the energy policy and the fact that the article is wrong, it is not cheaper to fuel a ICE vehicle. The article is correct that it is more expensive to use commercial chargers (fast chargers really since the regular ones are not so expensive), but they assume everyone runs around using those constantly. We have an EV in GA and our cost to "fill it up" is about 40 cents and we get up to 80 miles for that cost. I charged ours for free last night while we were at dinner with the Volta chargers, so even better. They also assume everyone buys the most expensive ESVEs (chargers) for their home. Ours was $350 including wiring a new 50 amp circuit to support it and it's still working great. Many EVs come with a charger as well, all you need is the 220V circuit for faster charging. We've owned the car for 8 years now and it saves us a lot on fuel costs compared to our other 2 vehicles (a 2 seater sports car and a pickup truck). Add in the fact that all of the maintenance cost in 100K miles has only been about $500 (12v battery, wipers & fluid and front ball joints in 8 years), it really is much cheaper.
On the other side of the coin, the range does go down in an EV as the battery degrades. When it gets to the point of replacing the battery, most EVs will end up in a junk yard since the batteries are so expensive to replace. The range also drops by 1/3 when the temp is below 30F and it dropped by 1/2 when we had the recent cold snap of 5F. Also, as with everything in the market, when the government started giving out $7500 "free money" to buy EVs, their prices magically rose by close to the same amount so their prices are artificially inflated and they depreciate quickly. That's the reason we bought ours when it was 2 years old and had 25K miles. It was a cheap buy for us at $8K, but the first owner took a bath after paying over $30K for it new.
There are pluses and minuses for both types of vehicles. We love our EV, but the government trying to force everyone to buy them is ludicrous and very costly to our economy and it needs to stop.
I agree with John Brewer, especially on the energy policy and the fact that the article is wrong, it is not cheaper to fuel a ICE vehicle. The article is correct that it is more expensive to use commercial chargers (fast chargers really since the regular ones are not so expensive), but they assume everyone runs around using those constantly. We have an EV in GA and our cost to "fill it up" is about 40 cents and we get up to 80 miles for that cost. I charged ours for free last night while we were at dinner with the Volta chargers, so even better. They also assume everyone buys the most expensive ESVEs (chargers) for their home. Ours was $350 including wiring a new 50 amp circuit to support it and it's still working great. Many EVs come with a charger as well, all you need is the 220V circuit for faster charging. We've owned the car for 8 years now and it saves us a lot on fuel costs compared to our other 2 vehicles (a 2 seater sports car and a pickup truck). Add in the fact that all of the maintenance cost in 100K miles has only been about $500 (12v battery, wipers & fluid and front ball joints in 8 years), it really is much cheaper.
On the other side of the coin, the range does go down in an EV as the battery degrades. When it gets to the point of replacing the battery, most EVs will end up in a junk yard since the batteries are so expensive to replace. The range also drops by 1/3 when the temp is below 30F and it dropped by 1/2 when we had the recent cold snap of 5F. Also, as with everything in the market, when the government started giving out $7500 "free money" to buy EVs, their prices magically rose by close to the same amount so their prices are artificially inflated and they depreciate quickly. That's the reason we bought ours when it was 2 years old and had 25K miles. It was a cheap buy for us at $8K, but the first owner took a bath after paying over $30K for it new.
There are pluses and minuses for both types of vehicles. We love our EV, but the government trying to force everyone to buy them is ludicrous and very costly to our economy and it needs to stop.