For example, owners of gas-powered mid-sized cars and crossovers used $11.08 worth of gas to drive 100 miles, while EV owners paid $12.62 to charge their cars to go the same distance if they charged up at home. The price jumped to $16.10 per mile for drivers using public chargers.
Those unable to charge at home are also in the lower income class which means it hurts the common man.
Good point and the accuracy can be proven. Living in the Trump Tower you could not charge your EV at home, thus, all those people are lower class, especially the guy in the penthouse.
If a Democrat's lips are moving...
Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago Charger is located on Level 4 near exit
The OP left significant context out of the article summmary.
"The old caveat -your mileage may vary- applies to those statistics. In practice, EV owners may be able to get lower costs than Anderson's research showed. While Anderson's figures take into account the cost to install a home charging system, along with other costs like taxes and the cost to travel to gas or charging stations, they assume that only a fraction of drivers are getting cheaper electricity than many EV owners can take advantage of."
Additionally:
"The Anderson study also factors in a dollar cost of the "time burden" of charging EVs based on charging times and typical hourly wages. In Anderson's calculations, the driver of a luxury electric vehicle paid a "time burden" of $401.50 per month if they mostly charged at commercial chargers, while those who fueled up their luxury rides with gasoline spent less than $33 worth of their time waiting at the pump."
Which of course completely ignores the large fraction of EV owners who simply plug their car in overnight at home.
"Indeed, past studies have shown that electric cars offer big savings over the long term. A 2020 study by the Department of Energy calculated that EV owners save $14,500 in fuel costs over 15 years of driving an electric car instead of a gas-powered one."
That's all in the investopedia link that the poop stain posted.
Finally,
"Anderson's study is also a snapshot of a time when electricity prices are soaring, and gasoline has fallen from a recent peak. Every time the price of gas and electricity changes so does the math on whether it makes financial sense to go electric. When gas prices surged in 2021, Anderson's data showed EVs being cheaper."
The Proterra electric bus company is going bankrupt. A similar thing happened years ago when cars, trucks & tractors were being developed. Bunches of companies started out and a few survived.
I expected typical lib response: "and Trump". This happens when they know you are correct.
Pure nonsense. WA state has the biggest saving per "fillup" for electrics cars. $80 per tank for the big pickup.
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