Ok? Maybe follow this instead, it might help with your simplistic understanding of math.
Where's the scam? ICE drivers don't use DCFC and purchasing gasoline is a wash as far as cost, nowhere near your supposed 5 or 6 times the price.
$0.53/kWh in ICE terms=$17.869/gallon of gasoline. That's where.
Buying anything over $70k is not going to get you better economics, especially when insurance / registration is calculated. However for me at $.11 a kilowatt hour for 90% of charging and letās say .$50 on average for l3 charging at 10% Iām at $.15 a kWh. Compared to my Hemi Ram For my 12k miles per year at 16.5 mpg at $2.80 a gallon = $2,037 annually vs R1T at my lifetime 2.1 mpkwh = $857. Over my expected use case of 8 years =$9,440. So that is a benefit as well as way less carbons if into that kind of thing.We went EV thinking we would be saving SO much money over gasoline. Just ain't happening, and I have that... sour note... stuck in my mind.
I tried, I tried, I tried. Had to run errands yesterday that took me within 8 miles of the East Greenwich RI RAN station (rated at 1 -, BTW); figured "Okay.. let's do this!" Got off Rt. 4 and across from the off ramp (1 block from the RAN station) was a new, Neon gas station with a Tesla charging bank in the back. I needed to get the battery up to 85% (expecting to do a lot of driving this weekend) and the session added 71.21kW. RAN... $0.60kW, Tesla... $0.48kW. I went Tesla. $34.18 versus $42.73 (basic math). It's not "premium fuel", it's electricity. The same electricity at Tesla that they have at the RAN station.
Idunno... I bought the Rivian (outright as of March of this year) thinking I would be saving money in the long run... that just has not materializing at all. My auto insurance premium has more than doubled and the R1T is costing me and average of $0.22 per mile (basic math; cost / miles driven), where my old Frontier (traded on the R1T) was running me $0.15, and our 2015 Nissa Rogue is running $.09. LOVE the vehicle, LOVE the R1T, LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT... but over $30 a week in energy... I am starting to rethink how in the Hell did I get here?
For the moment, we are treating is as the "Townie Truck" and my daily driver; various appointments and local errands, no more than 50-60 miles a day when we are out and about, etc. A very expensive "Townie Truck". Unlike an ICE vehicle, I have not seen any uptick in MPGe savings when driving on the highway - the cost per mile actually went up.
Not... wholly impressed with these economics.
In reality, an EV owner will always come out ahead at least in terms of EV maintenance costs or lack thereof and charging largely at home. My Model S cost way over $70k and it indeed has saved me a lot of money both in terms of energy and maintenance, the latter at $850 in over 5 years.
Wow your math is just horrid....
Sure, but you reply to me interjecting about things I never brought up. Not sure why you reply to me about such things you want to whine about, but play stupid games win stupid prizes - amirite?
This isn't a sentence.
Rivian Adventure Network
Might want to go back to school and take grammar 101. Whining?
Math is horrid?
@bigsky is still clinging to the willfully disingenuous theoretical energy density of a gallon of gas, I see. If he wants to encourage others to take Physics 101 and then willingly insult others' basic math skills, he can challenge himself to do just that and apply physics to the effect fueling a gas vehicle with said gasoline has on its effieicncy.
I don't get the whole idea in creating your own charging network, just stick to making vehicles.
