All of your comparable car examples were anywhere from $4,000 to $2,000 less than the Leaf, while over 150,000 miles the Leaf will save you about $10,000 in gas. And that's ignoring tax credits. Tax credits do make EVs somewhat cheaper than they would normally be, but they also inflate the MSRP because manufacturers know you're getting the credit. This happens to everything with tax credits or rebates, from solar panels to college tuition. The jews selling the shit want in on some of that action. Without the tax incentives the MSRP would be lower, just not as low as with the tax credits.
Batteries have a life where they reach a certain percentage of charge capacity. This is where you replace them because they start degrading rapidly.
All batteries degrade over time. Except a couple of notorious examples (Nissan's famously defective batteries in early model Leafs or BMW's shitty i3), real world data from thousands of cars (geotab.com) shows battery degradation is minor and linear in many models. After 7 years, the average electric car battery still has 86% of it's original capacity. A 150-mile EV will still go 129 miles 7 years later.
There are a lot of models with better than average battery degradation. For example, the Chevy Bolt has 96% of it's battery capacity after 4 years, an annualized 1% decline.
Adding those up, we get 360 miles at a charge time of 135 minutes. Since we only need 445 miles and we got 149 from the original charge, we need 296 miles. That's 82.2% of the total from three partial charges, so that's 82.2% of 135 minutes, or ~111 minutes. Our drive time is 408 minutes, with 111 minutes for charging, for a total of 519 minutes. About 8.65 hours, which is not 8.
You used 65 mph and I used 70. The only time difference.
Can you "charge" faster in a gas car? Of course. Nobody's denying that. The point is that unless you're making trips like that on any regular basis it doesn't make economic sense to drive a gas car. It's the same thing as driving a giant truck to work every day. It's a stupid waste of your money when, for the cost of gas you could have a commuter car and own your truck for much longer.
You asked for examples, I gave you examples. You keep changing the locations of the goalposts.
Which goalposts have moved? I showed you the gas car is still more expensive. You're just wanting to leave out the operating cost.
We weren’t discussing operating costs, we were discussing comparable car costs. I can buy a gasoline car for 2/3 the price of an electric, and come out the same. Operating costs are more, entry price is less. It’s called trade off.
Until Tesla’s 20k base without incentive priced car come out, you’re still going to be about the same as a gasoline car, or behind considering 12c per kWh is cheap in some places. Assuming rolling blackouts don’t prohibit you from charging at all.
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