Just over 7 cents for a kWh after 7 pm in this neck of the woods, my Leaf costs about $4.00 to charge if I ever drove it to 0% and take the extra charges on the Hydro bill into account. Most of the skeptics always concentrate on that 1000 km trip they made 5 years ago and discount that I only need to charge at a public charger once or twice a month. I have to remember that I promised to take my wife’s car for an oil change something my car doesn’t need either and I don’t have to to listen to oil change “technician's” upsell for various services that I doubt he is qualified to perform.
good Fer you. my drive to work is about 30 miles and once there no place to charge in the company lot so the trip back is another 30. There's a bit of traffic on the go home so it takes a bit over an hour to get home.Once I get home the possible call to come back for OT is a good bet cause my job is in the utility industry and totally at mother natures whim. So after the miles and time from a whole day getting to and from I have to do the same thing again after a three or four hour reprieve . The battery powered horse would not like only a three hour charge to go another 60 mi. so not a choice for me. I'll keep my Wrangler for now. You wouldn't want your lights staying out while somebody has to come get me and my dead battery rig.
Reg gas where I live in BC is 203.9/L. Step-2 home charging in BC -- the house always takes the lower step-1 rate -- is $0.1408.kwh, and with my Bolt having a 65kwh battery, a full charge would cost $9.15. How inexpensive is the kwh rate where you live? I don't see myself going back to ice.
Sure that might work for some people but I don’t see it working for me at all. A 500 km drive from Edmonton to Ft. McMurray and then the car sits for a couple of weeks with no place to charge it. Some jobs take me to even more remote places and I’m not wasting my time charging on the way out or back if I can even find a charger. Enjoy the cheap ride while you can, governments are working on various ways to collect those taxes they aren’t getting from fuel sales.
Thanks for watching and thanks for your comment. Public DC EV charging is improving rapidly. I invite you to watch some of my other videos. Cheers, Bruce
