Initial prices are higher for PEVs (unless you qualify for lots of subsidies), batteries won't last the life of the car which eliminates much if not all of the advantage of less money spent on routine maintenance, and as I've shown, fuel/electricity price advantage is highly dependent on both housi...
You're limiting sales to only those own single-family homes or who have reliable workplace charging. Sure. Which is well over 50%. No where close to that yet. I've edited my previous post to include public charging info by metro area. And as I mentioned, here in the Bay Area we're at 40% or a bit m...
The entire premise of using a hypothetical per mile fuel cost as a guide for deciding on ICE versus EV is a strawman. The top reason people buy EVs are to reduce their climate footprint, not shave 20 cents off a 100 mile trip. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/07/13/how-americans-view-el...
When 1% of population is driving EVs, the only opinion that matters is the next 1% that is going to double the number of EVs. When 2% and so on. Where GRA's concern trolling fails is that focusing on the last 10% doesn't change anything until adoption gets near to 90%. You're limiting sales to only...
Self-selection? Aren't we are all going to buy vehicles we think will work for us? If I need an F350 pickup, I would get one. And the cost per mile would be way higher. When people buy BEVs, they are more than likely thinking "local commuter, errands, charge at home" . They are now chargi...
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1140640_tesla-range-not-degraded-by-frequent-fast-charging . . . Recurrent, which produces battery health reports for used EVs, studied fast-charging on over 12,500 Tesla vehicles in the U.S. Cars that were fast-charged at least 90% of the time were compared to ...
That's a perfect example of self-selection - people who've bought PEVs did so because they work for them (and because they can afford them). For everyone where that isn't the case, they don't. Self-selection? Aren't we are all going to buy vehicles we think will work for us? If I need an F350 picku...
To get back on topic, and also address some of the assumptions being used in calculating per mile fuel costs between comparable ICE and EV vehicles, there are the following questions to answer: 1) where are people charging; 2) what is the vehicle make up of the household otherwise and 3) how realis...
Got this notice via California's Road Charge Pilot Program newsletter. AFAIK this is the first state to move from trials to making this mandatory: Hawaii Governor Signs First Mandatory Road Usage Charge in US into Law SB 1534 creates a mileage-based road usage charge to replace state motor fuel taxe...