You may be right, though you aren't taking into account the other
factors, most importantly the long term maintenance.
However, I think the bigger factor is the amount of time you need to
spend charging on a long road trip. If you only drive 200 or so miles a
day, no problem. You can charge at night. But if you are like most
people and drive 500+, you'll need at least two charging stops, which
will add a few hours to your travel. You might be able to combine that
with meal stops or point of interest stops, but I don't think the
infrastructure is that opportune yet.
In the future, when we have faster charging and competition on kWh
pricing, I hope we'll be on the other side of the inflection point.
Peri
------ Original Message ------
From: "Mark Hanson via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org>
To: ev@lists.evdl.org
Cc: "Mark Hanson" <markehans...@gmail.com>
Sent: 22-May-19 7:06:20 AM
Subject: [EVDL] Road Trips: plugin vs EV cost per mile
Hi folks
It seems that it's cheaper for taking long road trips to buy a Prius Prime vs a
pricier Tesla or Bolt with a 60kwh battery pack and pay an average of 28c per
kWh average on the road at level 3 fast charging stations. We have shorter
range cheaper EVs (Spark bought 1 year old for $14k and Leaf $9.2k). At $3 a
gallon/50 = 6c per mile and at 28c per kWh / 4 (ac meas)= 7c per mile in a long
range EV (also have to pay $40k for the car with the 60kwh or so battery pack).
Maybe it's better for the environment to drive a long range EV but for your
wallet the Prius Prime and a shorter range EV for 90% miles local trips makes
more sense.
Have a renewable energy day,
Mark
Www.Reevadiy.org
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