An EV is absolutely more environmentally friendly. They start out with a significant disadvantage, but the efficiency in using energy catches up quick. Even if the entire electrical grid was oil and coal, an EV would be a better choice.

• EVs are more eco-friendly. Even if your electricity is generated 100% by coal/natural gas it’s still better for the environment due to increased efficiency with a larger turbine generating the energy vs a tiny one in an ICE. on top of that because electricity is agnostic you can charge it anywhere without needing to…

The national average of cost per kWh is $0.16, which means you can fill a long range Model 3 for about $13 and that should get you well over 200 miles. Sure there are other costs to factor into the comparisons, but I’m mainly focused on their “$11.60 to travel 100 miles” figure. Oh about a third of this “fueling cost”…

Yeah this garbage has been spread arond for a while. You should delete this and apologize for spreading bs.

Essentially this same exact ‘report’ has been pushed by this same company for several years now, and every single time it’s debunked for making the same ridiculous, bullshit assumptions about how people interact with their EVs and ICE vehicles in order to land on the conclusion that they are paid to land on. Why in…

Ridiculous, they must have cherry picked their data points.

Stop promoting this guy. He is attention seeking and makes up stats in his “studies”. It is all for attention.

AEG is a for profit consulting firm based in Michigan. I think it would be very important to know who paid for this research. It could be on the up and up or it could be something funded by an energy company.

Copy and pasting the same non-sense over and over doesn’t make it right or true. It just makes you annoying.

Cost to buy and drive for 10 years:

Hahahaha people are still posting shit like this? Next article should be; vehicles equipped with airbags and seatbelts strangle and kill more people than vehicles without. Repost some articles from 1970. Has about the same amount of truth as this crap. 

“the opportunity cost of waiting for vehicles to charge at stations”

go fuck yourself with your bullshit numbers.

but, it’s not like EV manufacturers and electricity vendors are going to let us just keep that gas money. even if EV cars are still cheaper to fuel right now, that won’t last long at all.

Is this Facebook where grandpa is spouting whatever BS some random Fox News talking head told him to think? JFC I expect a bit more from a site dealing with cars. 

Seriously?

This is an anti EV thing that AEG’s been pushing for years, even Jalopnik’s sister site has an article debunking this https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/26/about-that-scary-evs-cost-more-to-fuel-study-not/.

Yeah i just filled up our ICE (RX400h) and at 25mpg and $4.70/gal it’s $0.19/mile. Just the ICE number sounds suspiciously low. You’d need to average 30mpg at the US average of $3.40/gallon which isn’t really representative of the ICE fleet (it’s more like 25 mpg)

the EV is running on $0.36/kwh and gets about 333…

Uh, what? This smells like bullshit to me.

My Chevy Bolt uses about 29Kwh to drive 100 miles.
I pay .25 per Kw to charge at home. That’s $7.25 for 100 miles.

My gas car gets about 22 mpg combined, for 100 miles that’s 4.5 gallons @ $4/gal = $18 in regular gas for 100 miles.

I still can’t figure out why heat pumps are considered a “costly” technology, but air conditioning isn’t. It’s literally the same cycle, just in reverse.  Yes, it means you have to have add a few more components to your AC and size it differently but I can’t figure out why this is somehow a huge financial hurdle in…

If it’s hot out, AC can still find cold to pump. “Freezing” is relative. Just like 115 F is “Cold” to a 200 F coolant loop. Even if it’s very cold (for humans) outside, there is still lots of heat, relatively speaking. Heat pumps lose efficiency as temperature drops but it doesn’t go away completely. My home heat pump…

Co-worker bought a Lightning.  Used a home equity loan.  Welcome to 2008.