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This sounds like BS. Years ago I calculated the cost of electricity is 1/5 of gas. Unless electricity jacked up (gas has stayed roughly the same) this doesn't make sense.
Depends on your housing situation I assume. Mile for mile in a similarly specced car (V6 honda accord vs Model 3 Long Range) my electricity costs are about 1/4 what I paid in gas. But that's because I can charge at home. If I had to exclusively supercharge, they'd be about the same.
Thankfully I don't have to, so I get to wake up every morning to a full car
Price of gas is not the cost of gas.
It should include a way of getting the gases back into non-gas form and to reverse/mitigate any damages caused in the process. And the same for all of the supply chains (for gas and electricity, and any product really), can't produce that much waste on a finite planet & just forget about it if there are no (complete, non-bs) recycling processes, natural or man-made.
Thats why plastic very much isn't cost-efficient, it's just cheap bcs legislators allow it to be.
What kind of maniac intentionally only charges at public charging stations? That would be the only way I could see to make filling up an EV cost more. Maybe on-street parking apartment dwellers who also can't charge at work would fit that description.
I'm about 2 years from being able to charge at home using excess solar (during 9ish months of the year, anyway) almost exclusively. That, plus not needing nearly as many service appointments, is going to save me enough on running costs to cover about 1/2 of the car payment on the electric car I'll get (based on current prices, solar wattage / sqft, and my own driving habits). Its a very privileged position to be in.
I got blasted with a $700 electric bill this month, and we didn't really do anything new or different. So this doesn't surprise me really.
If electricity is going to cost this much, I guess the only way electric gets "cheaper" than gas is by hiking gas prices until its cheaper to charge. Consumers are never going to win though.
What was your bill the month before? How much more or less did you run the AC this month? Did you take any road trips?
You can make your own electricity at home if you have the room, by installing solar panels.
IMO everyone should invest in off-grid solar if you can manage it. I have electricity on tap no matter what the power company or their wires are doing.
Or if gas is actually cheaper than electricity, just install a trailer hitch and a hitch cargo carrier, then mount an inverter generator on your cargo carrier and charge the EV on the go with gas.
I can't wait to get solar. Personally I don't have the cash on hand to pay the $40K quote I got for a 16kW system, and I'm not comfortable taking out that big of a loan with the economy being such a huge question mark, but in a year or two I'm really looking forward to it
Just get yourself self-smarted on the learnins you need to DIY the solar install. 40k would buy an enormous shit-ton of solar power components, way more than you need. Mine was under 10k
Are you somewhere that is a lot hotter than normal and working the AC? Did your kwh rates change?
There should be something that lets you know why it is higher if you didn't really really do anything different.
