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hayden55 · 12-28-2018, 07:29 PM

Uh....
I know that it is caifornia and that gas is expensive. But it looks like with gas and electricity being scaled up at the same percentage, and your electric company wanting to charge you a monthly fee to charge, I would say an EV doesn't make any sense. Thats a lot of head ache to save very little. Unless you have two solid vehicles then go for it.
But I wouldn't buy anything new. The ownership cost would be horrible for the first five years, before depreciation and insurance and taxes finally dropped to an acceptable level. I think a used Prius is probably a no brainer. Me personally the 100% reliability and the shockingly low depreciation rate of my car have really impressed me over the last couple years.
Since I bought my car in 2010 with 92k miles. I now have 144k miles. 0 repairs. One set of tires. a couple diy oil changes. An engine coolant change. Spark plug swap. Blow out the air filters every now and then. And literally 0% depreciation since I had a good deal on it originally.
My honda got similar gas mileage, but the repairs kind of killed it for me.

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hayden55 Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: USA Posts: 1,171 Sport Utility Prius - '10 Toyota Prius II 90 day: 52.98 mpg (US) 300k Sequoia 4WD - '01 Toyota Sequoia Limited 4wd 90 day: 20.19 mpg (US) Thanks: 352 Thanked 268 Times in 215 Posts	Uh.... I know that it is caifornia and that gas is expensive. But it looks like with gas and electricity being scaled up at the same percentage, and your electric company wanting to charge you a monthly fee to charge, I would say an EV doesn't make any sense. Thats a lot of head ache to save very little. Unless you have two solid vehicles then go for it. But I wouldn't buy anything new. The ownership cost would be horrible for the first five years, before depreciation and insurance and taxes finally dropped to an acceptable level. I think a used Prius is probably a no brainer. Me personally the 100% reliability and the shockingly low depreciation rate of my car have really impressed me over the last couple years. Since I bought my car in 2010 with 92k miles. I now have 144k miles. 0 repairs. One set of tires. a couple diy oil changes. An engine coolant change. Spark plug swap. Blow out the air filters every now and then. And literally 0% depreciation since I had a good deal on it originally. My honda got similar gas mileage, but the repairs kind of killed it for me. __________________ "I feel like the bad decisions come into play when you trade too much of your time for money paying for things you can't really afford."