> First, they amortize the cost of home charging infrastructure over 5 years, but personally, that's not how I think about those costs. When I'm comparing price

> First, they amortize the cost of home charging infrastructure over 5 years, but personally, that's not how I think about those costs. When I'm comparing prices between cars, I'm considering the home charging as a one-time upfront cost. Once I've paid that cost it's not part of my ongoing costs to fuel the car. Eeeehhhhhh... I don't think it's unfair. The way I think of it would be capital cost to operating cost break even point. If it costs me $X install the equipment, but reduces my per distance operating costs, eventually at some point in the saved operating costs will overtake the initial upfront costs and you're outright saving money. Until that point through you're still technically behind in what you paid though. I do think it's really weird to try and include it in a per KM operating costs as they did though. That's about as twisted up as Tesla saying the real cost of a car is the purchase price - the gas you don't burn price. But at the same time, ignoring the cost of it is also weird to me as well if you want to talk about total cost of ownership. Once you've hit that break even, sure, but until then, eh.