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Thalass · 03-02-2008, 12:17 AM

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

03-02-2008, 12:17 AM	#7 (permalink)
Thalass Modding for Eris Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: North Bay, Ontario, Canada Posts: 129 SilverCivic - '08 Honda Civic 90 day: 28.69 mpg (US) Thanks: 39 Thanked 11 Times in 8 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 __________________ Making do with a Honda Civic. Tesla Model 3 reserved. Still kinda want an SVX for fun, though. Last edited by Thalass; 03-02-2008 at 12:18 AM.. Reason: more numbers!