http://green.autoblog.com/2014/09/19/ugly-economics-of-green-vehicles/
Thought some here may find it interesting.
Thought some here may find it interesting.
In my case, not true. My out of pocket, after incentives, (I purchasd) was about $21000. I get my electricity for free at work, so I did not need to buy a L2 charger. I save about $200/month in gas that I no longer have to buy. I save quite a bit on routine maintenance I don't need to do. Over the projected expected life of the vehicle (7 year warranty on battery pack) I will have saved around $17000 in fuel costs. For me, the math DOES add up. Oh, one other thing, access to the HOV lanes saves me about 1 hour a day in drive time, and that has huge value to me in quality of life.It doesnt take an economics degree to realize that;
1) High incentives cannot be maintained TRUE
2) Electric only cars are "add on" vehicles and not the only car a family owns since they are entirely impracticable at least some of the time...and a family cant have a car it can use only sometimes. TRUE
3) Electric only vehicles are a negative equity choice in almost all cases...even after incentives
shoot! I agree. I just paid a $600+ registration fee yesterday on a car which also gets me 17mpg on average. So ya. I paid enough tax to cover 5 EVs to use the roads.I don't feel bad because since I have 2 other expensive cars that I pay huge amounts of registration money which is almost all tax, I'm definitely pulling my part. (People should pay a flat rate for vehicle registration, or better yet, pay by a combination of their mileage driven and the weight of their vehicle)
Greg
Very well said!screw the environment
Screw the air quality
screw the Gulf (Deepwater Horizon anyone?)
screw the wars we fight over oil
screw the soldiers who die in those wars
screw the money we spend on those wars (we socialize the losses)
screw the fact that the consumer never pays the actula price of gas whe you factor in the costs of protecting the oil shipments and the ugly, ugly people we have to give money to
screw the contributions the big oil companies make to the politiians
screw the HOV lanes
screw everyone who stands in MY way
that pollution and global warming stuff is all a big hoax anyway, right?
there. I've said it for you.
But the nattering nabobs of negativity will continue to troll this forum dedicated to an electric car in order to smear it and take out thei frustrations on the rest of us.
There are more ways to generate electricity than gasoline.
And there are no emissions.
You really can't be serious...lol.Mp3Guy has been providing logical debate without personal insults. The few who have chosen to insult Mp3Guy make evident an absence of logic in opposition. -Brian