I am seeing a lot of negative articles on EV’s lately. They are using the slowdown in EV sales as a result of people abandoning EV’s. Yet I believe the slowdown is from high interest rates, inflation on everything, and people don’t have as much money right now because of inflation.
I just seen an article saying the true cost of running an EV is the equivalent of $17.33 a gallon, based on infrastructure, charging equipment, subsidies, etc. This kind of talk makes me sick, feels like some are pushing against EV’s in a big way, twisting the truth.
Coming from true EV owners what do you all think of this?
If you read the story about that “$17.33 a gallon” - and the underlying hit piece - you’ll see how laughable it is. For example, 1/2 of that $17.33 cost is the credit ICE vehicle manufacturers must purchase because their cars don’t meet CAFE standards. They also use a bogus assumption of a BEV lasting only 10 years and 120k miles.
Then they play a bit of a shell game with “high demand” kwh rates which are charged to commercial and industrial customers but not residential customers. They factor that uncharged high demand rate of $15/kwh into the $17.33 number.