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Where are these assumptions coming from? What 'cost of chargers' is associated with commercial charging? Shouldn't that be $0? They already include 'deadhead mi
by Kirby64 4y ago
Where are these assumptions coming from? What 'cost of chargers' is associated with commercial charging? Shouldn't that be $0? They already include 'deadhead miles' in their assumptions here, which should cover cost to transit to the chargers.
Also, if my eyeball-o-meter is correct, it looks like the ratio of energy cost to 'cost of chargers' is 5:3, which is insane.
Let's do some basic math I guess... they're counting this as the cost per 100 miles.
So, they're saying it costs $11.60 per 100 miles driven. For a 'mid-range' EV, you should be getting something like 250Wh/mi (some better, some worse). Let's assume worse, and go with 333Wh/mi (because the math is easy). So, 1kWh per 3 miles. So, it costs you 33.3kWh to go 100mi. If you did 250Wh/mi, that's 25 kWh to go 100mi.
At the terrible economy figure (333Wh/mi), you'd need to spend $0.34/kWh to account for their $11.60 cost, of which $0.21/kWh is actual electricity cost (using the 5:3 figure)...
At 250Wh/mi, you'd need to spend $0.46/kWh, of which $0.28/kWh is electricity cost.
That leaves 'cost of chargers' to be $4.35/100mi... which either means they assume you're spending $435/10k mi on a charger, or you're spending a one-time multi-thousand dollar cost on a charger and even then, only keeping the car for a few years. Even at an outrageous $4k to install a charger, that covers charging for 100k miles at the price they're proposing.
All-in-all, this seems like a flawed assumptions. Literally the only places where electricity costs that much are places like New England or California, and even then... the amount attributed to 'charger cost' is laughable at best.
The other thing, if you're in a state with super high electric cost... you also probably live in a state with higher than average gasoline cost. So their figure for gas cost is likely low.
- iamthepieman 4y agoElectricity cost is .15-.20kWh in my area in New England depending on which utility you are with. At the ratio you mentioned this means I'd be spending .30 kWh (taking .18 as the midpoint of local prices). New England also means cold weather. It's in the teens here pretty regularly but I don't know the numbers for how that'd effect EV efficiency. Regardless, not as much of a difference in cost as I thought it would be. In my ICE vehicle I pay 10.50 per 100 miles at the current gas prices in my area.
- Kirby64 4y agoThe ratio I mention is what is BS, IMO. There's no reason why charging costs need to be that high. The way they're amortizing it seems flawed.