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I'm a little confused by your comment. Yes, batteries are expensive, therefore a shorter range EV should have a cheaper price than a longer range one, because y

I'm a little confused by your comment. Yes, batteries are expensive, therefore a shorter range EV should have a cheaper price than a longer range one, because you are removing expensive battery. I think there might have bee some confusion. I meant "cheaper than an EV with the usual 250ish mile range", not cheaper than an ICE vehicle. I bought an EV last year. It was more expensive up front than a comparable ICE vehicle, but the loan payments + charging costs were actually cheaper than the loan payments + fuel costs would have been. With my vehicle, I may, in the future, have to rent a larger ICE vehicle on rare occasions. This was a possibility I considered before I purchased the vehicle and decided I was fine with it, since my monthly fuel savings will more than offset this cost. I was suggesting that, for a sufficient discount, I would have bought an EV with less range and started renting a vehicle now, instead of potentially in the future.

bluGill 3y ago
while short range is cheaper, they are still expensive. Note too that li-ion batteries like to run between 20% and 80% charge (I don't recall the exact #, but close enough), so you want more battery to save life long term, so your 100 mile range becomes 60 - which suddenly isn't enough to handle the unexpected life events (it will get the average person to work, lunch and back home - but there is no reserve for anything else to come up - and it gets worse as the battery gets old. I'd say for a cheap car 150 miles is the lowest you really should go (I know the leaf only got 70, but it wasn't only practical if you had something else as a backup - according the everyone I know who bought one) I've been looking at EVs, like you I expect that the savings in fuel will be significant - but the car it would replace is paid for so the loan is hard to stomach. (that car is 12 years, 215k miles, and otherwise showing age - I'm going to look hard at the id.buzz when it comes out this summer - but if I can buy a used minivan for half the price...)

bluGill 3y ago

while short range is cheaper, they are still expensive. Note too that li-ion batteries like to run between 20% and 80% charge (I don't recall the exact #, but close enough), so you want more battery to save life long term, so your 100 mile range becomes 60 - which suddenly isn't enough to handle the unexpected life events (it will get the average person to work, lunch and back home - but there is no reserve for anything else to come up - and it gets worse as the battery gets old. I'd say for a cheap car 150 miles is the lowest you really should go (I know the leaf only got 70, but it wasn't only practical if you had something else as a backup - according the everyone I know who bought one) I've been looking at EVs, like you I expect that the savings in fuel will be significant - but the car it would replace is paid for so the loan is hard to stomach. (that car is 12 years, 215k miles, and otherwise showing age - I'm going to look hard at the id.buzz when it comes out this summer - but if I can buy a used minivan for half the price...)