As an ev fan, I’d say this is the best argument against ev’s. All the tax dollars spent, shit id rather have a balanced budget and our dollars buying us more fuel, no doubt. The dollars did help to advance the technology pretty quickly but I’d rather wait for it all to come out naturally.
As a full time courier for the last 5 years, I’d say once you own a used ev, there is no comparison on costs to run/maintain your vehicle.. I paid $3000 for my 180k mile used hybrid 3 years ago, added 30k miles, and I’ve spent about $1200 on gas, $100 electricity, $1000 maintenance/ tires. Car has brought in over 100k in earnings and still same condition/price I bought it..
before that I was using a 8 cylinder 14 mpg vehicle. My costs would be about 10% of earnings for gas and another 5% for maintenance. So id say by switching from 8 cylinder to a hybrid i have saved around $4000 per year. This would be increased if I drove more but i drive less than average.
Yup hybrid is the real way to go for saving money UNLeSS you have a very specific setup like free supercharging OR a large solar and power bank. I have 3 teslas so I know and am bias because I love the evs. However people in SoCal who think they gonna save money by using ev without the factors aforementioned you’re in for some serious pain.
As an ev fan, I’d say this is the best argument against ev’s. All the tax dollars spent, shit id rather have a balanced budget and our dollars buying us more fuel, no doubt. The dollars did help to advance the technology pretty quickly but I’d rather wait for it all to come out naturally.
As a full time courier for the last 5 years, I’d say once you own a used ev, there is no comparison on costs to run/maintain your vehicle.. I paid $3000 for my 180k mile used hybrid 3 years ago, added 30k miles, and I’ve spent about $1200 on gas, $100 electricity, $1000 maintenance/ tires. Car has brought in over 100k in earnings and still same condition/price I bought it.. before that I was using a 8 cylinder 14 mpg vehicle. My costs would be about 10% of earnings for gas and another 5% for maintenance. So id say by switching from 8 cylinder to a hybrid i have saved around $4000 per year. This would be increased if I drove more but i drive less than average.
Yup hybrid is the real way to go for saving money UNLeSS you have a very specific setup like free supercharging OR a large solar and power bank. I have 3 teslas so I know and am bias because I love the evs. However people in SoCal who think they gonna save money by using ev without the factors aforementioned you’re in for some serious pain.