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I love watching people keep spending hundreds of dollars a month on gas while they think I'm the idiot for paying $26 a month for electricity. The cognitive dissonance cracks me up almost every day. "HEY YOU MORON! WHY ARE YOU PAYING $26 A MONTH WHEN YOU COULD BE PAYING $250? PLUS YOU COULD BE PAYING FOR OIL CHANGES, AIR FILTERS, AND OTHER SERVICE YOU AREN'T PAYING FOR NOW. YOU'RE SUCH A MORON!!! HUR DUR!"
You bought and electric car for $40k or more maybe a loan or cash.
I paid $7000 for my hybrid Toyota. I pay $50 per month. Less insurance too. I come out ahead.
I bought a 2020 Nissan Leaf with 60 kWh battery (~250 mile range) for $23,500 out the door after rebates.
I bought a 2010 highlander hybrid. I can tow 5000 lbs and I get 28 mpg. My lifetime overall costs will be 1/3rd as much as a leaf. I can also fit eight people, never worry about battery dying, can use gas, never worry about range, etc.
A leaf is a pretty gay car too.
There's no way you drive all month for $26 of electricity. That is a fucking lie, maybe $26 a week, but definitely not a month. You don't have to go around lying, it doesn't look good.
$26 is 217 kWh of electricity ($0.12 per kWh night charging). 217 kWh will get me 975 - 1050 miles. There's no lying involved, just simple math which proves elusive for some.
There is absolutely nowhere in California you can get power for $.12 per KWh. And with an electric car pulling that much power you will get put into a higher bracket paying somewhere around $.25 per KWh.
You are lying, thinking you're cool. I was just living in california at a house with solar panels as well. The cheapest our power ever got was $.22 per KWh, and that was in the country, very far away from a city center.
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