Who could have seen this coming?
Put solar panels on your roof.
The methodology used by AEG to calculate and compare ICE fueling costs versus EV charging expenses is based on a multi-variable analysis that includes gas taxes, electricity prices, and EV registration fees in the Midwest or State of Michigan, extrapolated to the rest of the country.
I don’t know what kinda math they are doing but in Texas it is vastly cheaper to charge your car than fill one up with gas. Its not even close.
I can only assume this was funded by oil companies to pump up the stocks.
Solar panels are awesome but you really need to charge in the day to get a good deal out of it. For me that would work because I don’t need to be in the office everyday. I could charge during peak sun hours every other day.
This shows how much I spent vs how much I would have spent.
In one month driving a whole bunch I saved 172$.
I can even save money if I really wanted to by plugging it in to my local grocery store outlet. I have no idea why they have one of these plugs out in the open .
Not sure how legal that is
TBF Tesla is probably exaggerating their estimated gas cost just as much as the authors of this article exaggerated electricity costs. Everybody’s playing the same game.
It’s not a hard calculation to make yourself. I manually put my kilowatt hour in the calculator so price of electricity is correct. I’ve driven 1480 miles . at 28 miles to the gallon which is about what the car it replaced got that would be 52 gallons. Gas is currently 3.50 per gallon. 180 dollars. I’ve spent 56$ of electricity so 182-56 I get 126$ savings. I think they aren’t counting the whole 1480 I think I have an extra week or two i’m counting since I bought the car. So at-least between 126 and 172$ savings. It’s a big difference. And there is no oil changes and pretty much no break changes either.
Electricity would have to be really expensive to exceed gas. Maybe some parts of the country it is idk but where i’m at it’s way cheaper.
