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Yes. When comparing electric cars to gasoline cars, just assume the electricity is free. The real money for the electric car is the depreciation of the batter
by danielweber 11y ago
Yes. When comparing electric cars to gasoline cars, just assume the electricity is free.
The real money for the electric car is the depreciation of the battery pack. A penny or two per mile is a rounding error compared to that.
- sokoloff 11y agoI pay $0.21/kWh for electricity (electricity generation and distribution charges combined) and usually get between 3.0 and 3.6 miles/kWh (lower in winter; hope to be somewhat higher in summer). So, electricity is costing me 6-7 cents per mile before considering the inefficiencies of the charger, so likely 7-9 cents/mile at the meter. For a typical 12K miles/year driver, those costs are order of magnitude the same as the battery pack depletion (for my LEAF anyway).