I think you would also have to put in the cost of maintenance, smog testing, oil changes, insurance...etc. Then you would get the real cost. I suspect the cost with incentives the Tesla and Prime would be very close depending on model. A stripped Prius Prime would be mid 20k. Tesla High 20k. However those are just guesses. Maybe members could chime in with their msrp numbers. In day to day use the Tesla would far outstrip the Prius. I think the question is how many times would you go on long car trips. Lawrence Rhodes From: Mark Hanson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [EVDL] Road Trips: plugin vs EV cost per mile Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20190522/fc789ad8/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
