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I bought a Chevy Bolt for ~$25.5k USD last year - including taxes/fees and the -$7.5k tax credit.
by turtlebits 7y ago
I bought a Chevy Bolt for ~$25.5k USD last year - including taxes/fees and the -$7.5k tax credit.
- Xixi 7y agoI don't know in the UK, but in France the most sold cars (Peugeot 208, Renault Clio, etc.) start around $16k (all taxes included). The best selling electric car [1] (Renault Zoe) starts at $19.5k (all taxes included, and including subsidies of $6.8k), but that doesn't include the batteries that have to be rented ($80/month) -> that adds $4.8k over 5 years. So in fact it's priced quite similarly to your Chevy Bolt. So roughly speaking we are looking at $5k to $10k more for an electric car over an ICE one. It's not out of reach for all, but it's still out of reach for many. The median after-tax income in France is I think about $2k/month. Disclaimer: all the figures I used were in EUR, that I translated to USD at current rate: so all the numbers will vary widely based on the EUR/USD fx rate. [1] Figures for 2019 until May 31st: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/15/french-ev-sales-up-34-in-may-2019/ https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/15/french-ev-sales-up-34-i...
- cogman10 7y agoI think fuel/maintenance costs are where EVs start winning. France has a $.14EU cost per kWh and ~$1.40 per liter of petrol/gas. That comes to about $0.014 EU per km and around $0.07 EU per km in france. This assumes an engine efficiency of 0.05L petrol per km (20km per L) and 100 Wh per km. In other words, with a lot of driving, electric will ultimately be a lot cheaper to operate. At 90km, you'd break even in france (assuming 5k price difference). That's about 18km per year.