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Thalass · 03-01-2008, 11:17 PM

Even if your electricity bill goes up, your petrol bill goes much farther down!

A rough calculation tells me that if I only use an EV to get to and from work (42km round trip, 182.5 days out of the year (very rough calculation :P) not for anything else) I'll be driving 7665km/year. Which in my petrol car will cost me AU$1105, whereas an EV will cost me AU$163! That's $936 difference!

And that's just the cost to drive it, the maintenance costs will be much lower, too!

Another quick numbercrunch (hooray for spreadsheets) tells me that for $1105 I could drive the EV over 50,000km! O_o

03-01-2008, 11:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
Thalass Modding for Eris Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Perth, West Australia, Australia. Posts: 92 Stockie - '00 Outback GX 90 day: 21.25 mpg (US) Wife's Car - '06 Corolla 90 day: 34.11 mpg (US) Horse - '98 GPX-250 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Even if your electricity bill goes up, your petrol bill goes much farther down! A rough calculation tells me that if I only use an EV to get to and from work (42km round trip, 182.5 days out of the year (very rough calculation :P) not for anything else) I'll be driving 7665km/year. Which in my petrol car will cost me AU$1105, whereas an EV will cost me AU$163! That's $936 difference! And that's just the cost to drive it, the maintenance costs will be much lower, too! Another quick numbercrunch (hooray for spreadsheets) tells me that for $1105 I could drive the EV over 50,000km! O_o __________________ Completely stock '99 Outback! Electric 4WD on the moon! Win! Last edited by Thalass; 03-01-2008 at 11:18 PM.. Reason: more numbers!