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Originally Posted by GreenHornet
Hey everyone,
I am curious as to what people would be willing to pay for a high mileage diesel electric hybrid?
I suppose some general specs need to be assumed first before one can make a good informed decision. So here goes some rough specs and feel free to add to them.
#1. 100/130 mpg City/Highway Combined mpg = 115mpg
#2. 100mph Top Speed
#3. Fuel Capacity 12 gal diesel tank for 1,200 mi Range or better
#4. Electric only range = 30-40 mi
#5. 0-60mph = 12 sec
#6. Seats 2 side by side
Based on this data I would most likely be willing to pay in the $25,000 - $28,000 USD range. While these are pretty ambitious specs the XL1 from VW shares some of them.
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I think $25k is wayyy too much. Using math, I found the most I would pay.
If I was comparing it to a used 12K Prius that got 46 MPG average. The Prius would use 326.09 gallons over 15k miles, this hybrid would use 130.43.
Using my local gas station prices ($3.599 a gallon for regular, $4.078 a gallon for diesel), the Prius would use $665.02 less fuel a year at 15k miles a year.
The break even point vs the $12 Prius:
at $25,000, it would be 19.55 years
at $22,500, it would be 15.79 years
at $20,000, it would be 12.03 years
at $17,500, it would be 8.27 years
at $15,326, it would be 5 years.
$15,326 is what I would pay if I drove 15,000 miles a year, but I do not. I drive almost 6000 miles a year. At $13,331, it would take 5 years to break even at 6000 miles a year, so that is what I would pay, tops.