Incentives (aka, rebates) will end for electric vehicles at some point, when all monies are claimed. As prices are artificially skewed in favor of electrics, price can't really be used as a comparison. Compare using MSRP.
That is MSRP. After incentives it's under $20,000.
Modern cars, with a little bit of care, can last 15 or more years. To keep your electric for that same amount of time, you're going to be spending quite a bit of mone
I have one that's 12 years old with 157,000 miles on it. No trouble yet.
Assuming you keep this car for as long as I've kept my gasoline cars (the longest was 17 years old) then you're probably going to be replacing the battery pack at least once, maybe twice depending on how often you deplete it.
The battery warranties are 150,000 miles or 10 years.
Yes, I said incentives are just that. Artificial skewing of price. There's no guarantee that will be here tomorrow. Compare MSRP to MSRP, not MSRP to fake price.
What part of THAT IS MSRP is difficult to understand?
Which is why I stated that modern (gasoline) cars can last 15 or more years.
If you're going to judge how long a car lasts by the warranty, how long is the warranty on your gas car? Most people are getting 300k or more miles out of their Tesla and Prius batteries with no issues. But even if you had to replace the battery every 150,000 miles, it's still cheaper than gas. A $10,000 battery replacement puts fuel and battery cost at 10 cents per mile, which is still the equivalent cost of a gas car getting 32 mpg.
The point here is that electrics are a crap deal for many drivers,
For very, very few. In fact, the only way it's a crap deal is if you need to drive more than 500 miles in 8 hours or less on a regular basis.
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