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> If you have solar and can charge at home, you basically drive for free You paid for the house, the solar and the new all-electric car though. So it depends o
by nottorp 2y ago
> If you have solar and can charge at home, you basically drive for free
You paid for the house, the solar and the new all-electric car though. So it depends on how long your commute is if it ends up cheaper or not.
- itishappy 2y agoCertainly cheaper than the oil well and refinery needed to drive an ICE for free! This means there's a guaranteed crossover point and the relevant variable becomes the lifecycle of the car. Will you drive an EV enough to make up for the infrastructure costs?
- nottorp 2y agoExcept you seem to share the costs for the refinery and petrol extraction with millions of other drivers. EVs are at best subsidized by governments, and even that is going away. They really need to work on price and convenience for mass adoption.
- itishappy 2y agoThis is true of electrical infrastructure as well. Solar is unique in that it's cheap enough that a family can consider slapping one on their roof for true self sufficiency, but that doesn't preclude industrial scale infrastructure (like nuke plants) from contributing as well.