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That's interesting. The last time I did the math it looked like the breakeven point would be well over a decade for me (approx 4000 driven miles per year). It m
by xenocyon 7y ago
That's interesting. The last time I did the math it looked like the breakeven point would be well over a decade for me (approx 4000 driven miles per year). It may be that things have changed since.
- hwillis 7y agoYou can also just buy a used EV. If it has more than 40-60k miles, has already paid itself off. Completely, not just the extra cost of manufacturing.
- wutbrodo 7y agoAnother often-missed factor that may shift the ethical breakeven point is that local air pollution is _really_ bad from a public health perspective, to a degree that's criminally underemphasized. If you're going to be burning fossil fuels for power, doing so in a centralized place away from dense populations makes a lot more sense than doing so next to schools, parks, residential density, etc.
- thehappypm 7y agoAnother fun fact is that, in my lifetime, Massachusetts will be a very green-energy grid. We are building a transmission line through Maine to connect to a Quebec hydro plant, and offshore wind is growing fast (though it all takes time). A Tesla I buy today will probably be carbon-free in its lifetime!
- acchow 7y ago4000 miles per year is much lower than the US average of 13k, or 12k km/year in the EU