Granted you can save some money and buy a used EV with short range. I am sold on the Supercharging Network of Tesla. I got 90 miles of range in less than 10 minutes on my last trip which was enough to get me to my Hotel where I charged for free. Then next night I again charged at the hotel on 120 v which was enough to get home. So I paid a minuscule amount on that trip. Then there is the cool factor of nearly Autonomous driving. Top that off with software updates which makes the car better every few months and The Tesla is just amazing. Of course I am biased since my TM3 is my first EV.
> Mark Hanson via EV wrote: >> It seems that it's cheaper for taking long road trips to buy a Prius >> Prime vs a pricier Tesla or Bolt with a 60kwh battery pack and pay an >> average of 28c per kWh average on the road at level 3 fast charging >> stations. We have shorter range cheaper EVs (Spark bought 1 year old >> for $14k and Leaf $9.2k). At $3 a gallon/50 = 6c per mile and at 28c >> per kWh / 4 (ac meas)= 7c per mile in a long range EV (also have to >> pay $40k for the car with the 60kwh or so battery pack). Maybe it's >> better for the environment to drive a long range EV but for your >> wallet the Prius Prime and a shorter range EV for 90% miles local >> trips makes more sense. > > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
