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Originally Posted by xelasnave
Anyways I wont be getting an electric car..while folk in US put six 300 hp motors on their boat I feel no guilt driving 400 klms a month in a petrol car..besides in this weather charging would cost a fortune.
Alex
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I've done the math on the EV we're getting. Even with the crappy weather, there's still enough solar power generated at home to top up the car for our usage, which should be a lot more than 400 kms a month. So ongoing "energy costs" = very close to zero. Unless we do multi-day trips, we expect our usage to be such that we won't need to use any 3rd party chargers.
And even if we had to do non-solar charging, the costs are still way less than petrol - and that was before the recent price hikes.
So, no, certainly not a fortune compared to a similar amount of fuel costs.