Help me understand the EV craze? Where is the big savings - using an ICE vehicle would be much more economical to go from Detroit to Daytona and more environmentally friendly than this Here are the numbers from a trip chronicled in the article: Stop 1 176 miles $77.86 Stop 2 165 miles $66.51 Stop 3 161 miles $36.48 Stop 4 $23.53 14 hours (6 charging) $204.38 Stop 5 Columbia, SC $40.80 Stop 6 Pooler, GA $30.13 Stop 7 Jax, FL $42.51 $113.44 Oh, by the way, they needed to replace the tires after the trip 4 tires at 20,000 miles $2001 Story below is about a 2 year ownership of a Rivian tested by Car and Driver https://lnkd.in/eax9UMnJ
The transition to electric vehicles involves upfront costs but offers long-term benefits in efficiency and sustainability. It's a strategic shift towards a greener future. Harvey Winters
It doesn’t make sense in the US. Private charging stations set their price to be about the same as a gasoline fill-up. At 50-75 cents per kWh it is crazy expensive to charge your car. In China I run my car for a month and it costs me 50 rmb. (About $7).
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2moI drove my Sierra 1500 nonstop from Orlando to Wilmington, NC on a single tank of diesel … $80 all in