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Originally Posted by KY Metro
Sorry. Metro cost $200 to buy, and I have $1000 in it for a complete overhaul. Show me an electric car for that price and I'm all over it.
Used? You betcha.
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I paid $180 for my first used factory built electric car, a 1975 Seabring Vanguard, Citi-car, I've spent about $400 getting it on the road including a set of used batteries, if you want to buy it from me it's for sale for $1,000 right now, I'm not trying to gouge anyone on price but I have other projects to pay for!
Cost for electricity here in Wisconsin is about 12 cents per kwh, that includes the charge for buying the wind power offsets, about 250 watt hours per mile come out to 3 cents per mile, I also drive a civic vx getting 50mpg in the summer and 43mpg in the winter, $2.90 per gallon gas ($3.10 if you are me and buy premium to avoid ethanol) or 6.2 cents per mile just for gasoline! if you compare battery pack cost to the cost of oil changes, exhaust systems, spark plugs, air filters, engine coolant, then my figures from a while back showed that you would brake even with the two, leaving tires, brakes, suspension and the rest of that normal car stuff to pay for.
Of course if you compare insurance, the electric car is almost half the insurance cost of my civic even tho they have the same value.