EV Insurance cost vs paying for gas?

[JRMichler]

Wow. I complain about paying $715 per year for two vehicles - my 06 Canyon and my wife's 10 Focus. Full coverage on both.

[GRU]

so to sum it up, you're not going to save money by adding another vehicle...Keep the one you have if you must (you like it) and try to drive it better because i get 25 US mpg starting from a cold engine within 2.1 km or driving in current -2 celcius weather...about 33mpg in 10km....so by not having to pay for another car, no extra insurance or repair bill, you're better off with your car even if you get 25 mpg

[GRU]

Oh and you don't have to worry about your car being "written off" for some small damage because you can decide to keep it and fix yourself if you want...it's your car, you can do anything you want with it but honestly unless it's worth like $30 000 it's not worth paying 6k per year for insurance because even if it gets stolen after 2 years, you can save 10k by not having the crazy insurance you curently have and use the money to import another same car.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Ryland

Arizona averages 6.5 sun hours per day.

I win!

Originally Posted by Ryland

A few years back I figured if I covered the roof of my electric car with solar panels, that I had enough space to give me a mile per day of range, on some cars you might have 4 times as much space and be able to optimize it a bit more, so maybe 5 miles of range could be squeezed out of some cars but I don't see anyone getting much more then that without building a super light car from scratch.

Wouldn't a larger area involve a heavier car, requiring more power?