Brewskwondo@alien.topBtoElectric Vehicles@gearhead.town•Top reason you bought your EV?English
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1 year agoAfter owning EVs for a decade I found out a few things that caused me to recently give up and go with a conventional hybrid.
- Electricity is no longer cheap. It now costs me .28/kwh. I’m not saving much compared to gas.
- I’m not getting incentives anymore on EVs so they aren’t cheaper to buy either.
- In CA you get to pay an extra fee on your registration just by owning them.
- They chew through tires
- Public charging and distance charging is annoying. Tesla’s are by far the easiest but stopping still sucks.
- Insurance is usually higher.
- You fixate on your battery health and babying the charging parameters to keep it healthy
- There’s literally no affordable 3-row EV SUVs. It’s a soon to be released Hyundai or an $85k Tesla or Rivian. In all cases the efficiency sucks and it costs even more to charge them (see #1)
Sorry but this is BS. California in most areas (under PG&E) pays .28/kwh on a time of use plan. That’s equivalent to about 50mpg in a gas car. Unless you never pay to charge at home and only use free work chargers and/or have unlimited free supercharging, your Subaru is roughly 50% of the cost of charging an EV. Your statement is akin to saying “I spent more on food in one month on vacation than I did at work the rest of the year.” When you work at Google and get free meals.