The Cost of Charging an Electric Car 

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My employer installed chargers and employees could charge for free. The problem was the people who owned EVs were mostly middle and upper management. Rank and File employees said that was unfair and they wanted a cash mileage allowance. The chargers were removed.

​@@williamegler8771they should have charged for use of the chargers, to cover the cost of electricity at least. That would be more fair while also enabling more people who want to go to an EV the ability to do so.

@@williamegler8771well tell your tank and file employees that if they stay off the drugs and had stayed in school they too could have upper management perks.

How to carge a car.

Excellent point! January/Massachusetts cost me $0.33 per KWh due to high "distribution" fees. So an EV is not efficient for me. Maybe if I had solar panels on the house?

Sleeping anyway

Lol, did you watch the video? the best and smart way is to charge at home overnight, you are sleeping at this time, no time is wasted.

You only charge at night if you have a private charger. For the millions of cars that can't access a private charger, they''ll be waiting. Also, just understand the madness of this. Night time power is generated by FOSSIL FUELS. The "renewable" power is only available at on-peak hours. So, in order to make your EV economical and practical, your EV has to be powered by FOSSIL FUELS.

@@AkioWasRight you understand theres renewables that work at night right? Plus using fossil fuels to generate electricity is still much more efficient than using in a ICE vehicle.

@@JD-ey8hw Most "renewables" don't work at night, at least not well enough to power the grid. Also, to say fossil fuel generation is more efficient is nonsense. When you connect to a fossil generator, your EV effectively is an ICE vehicle.

The insurance is comparable to cars of the same value, and long-term maintenance is cheaper on an EV, even including a battery replacement.

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t have $25k ready to spend on battery replacement. It’s a little ridiculous. I’ll wait till the maintenance costs are affordable.

@@mikafinn1200 maybe it's just me, but I don't have the $25,000 ready to spend on an engine and transmission replacement. It's a little ridiculous.

lol. Damn, I don’t know what car you have but obviously you can afford it. Regardless, I’ll just wait till the prices are more affordable. Although I have yet to see an EV car last 1million miles.

@@therabidsquirrelsage3388 Engines last much longer than batteries before breaking down. And when they do break, engines don't typical need an entire replacement or overhaul. Often, it's something relatively simple and cheap. What's more, engines don't degrade, batteries do. After 30+ years, as long as it's maintained, a good quality engine will still perform similar to new. A li-on battery will not only not last anywhere as long, it will become less and less usable with age.

January cost me $0.33 per KWh due to high "distribution" fees. So an EV is not efficient for me. Maybe if I had solar panels on the house?

My power in NW Wisconsin costs $0.125 a kWh and I have a small grid-tied solar array. It’s pretty reasonable to drive my Chevy Bolt around.

And how much unnecessary crap do you buy at the mall while you wait that hour.

@@silverdale3207 ……Not a penny!! 😁. The mall’s stores open at 10am, but the mall’s doors open at 9:30am. I arrive then to make sure I get my FREE fast charger before the crowds arrive, and I WALK the mall’s interior to get my 10,000 steps! 😎🥂👌

I thought the batteries were warrantied for 10 years?

I know GM’s are 8 years/100,000 miles for the battery. I can’t see how a battery would cost that much and not be under warranty. May be a anti-EV troll.

same with ice cars, after 13 years MOST people WONT keep them and MOST do NOT! , another FAIL troll attempt!

​@@karmendimas5274after 13 years i would love to own a bmw or benz. W211 or e46 or e60 is any day treat for me. Heck my brother drives and enjoys 1994 (!!!) W124. That's how long, 30 years old car still clocking on original engine. 5 minute refill and good to float through gighway for another 5 hours.

@@karmendimas5274 My Truck is now at 1.1 million miles & my other car is a 2006 & has no turbo. Better engines less maintenance.

Lots of free public charging. Pretty easy to argue if you take 5 minutes to look it’d actually be cheaper to charge in public

They explained the types of charging, the terminology (kW versus kWh), and went through an example calculation. You expect them to calculate numbers for each city/county in the US? Jfc, run your own numbers.

When your engine and transmission go bad in your gasoline powered car, it will cost more than your car. 😂

@@therabidsquirrelsage3388 Engines don't need entire replacement just because something breaks.

@@kevins5469 🤣 clearly you don't know anything about cars. Tell that to anyone who's had their timing chain or timing belt break on an interference engine. By the way, most vehicles nowadays are interference engines. And most EV batteries don't entirely fail. One battery cell out of six or seven fail, because there aren't a bunch of parts spinning at thousands of RPM, it doesn't tear the rest of the battery to pieces. And even when the EV batteries are no longer suitable for use in cars, they can still be sold for use in energy storage so they aren't completely worthless. like your engine detonated itself.

Well said. Too bad, some dont get the car business. Self repair is well better off compared to the current new cars.​@therabidsquirrelsage3388

​@@therabidsquirrelsage3388 No, I know plenty about cars, and what I said was correct. I've been building and repairing them for 35 years. Rarely does an engine or transmission need replacement, and I know for fact that what you said is just gaslighting.

I haven’t seen ICE car mileage is gallons/miles (volume/distance). I have seen Tesla use kWh/mi (energy/distance). Seems like most EVs are distance/energy (miles/ kWh).

@@bilo6832 Both measures are more intuitive

Incorrect. You also had to pay 80000.00 for the car itself. That's much more than most cars. And you also had to pay the price of hundreds of thousands of hours of wasted time, sitting around and waiting for the thing to charge, instead of going about your life, like with a normal car.

@@HarryKulohtakes about 15-20 minutes to charge 50-80% of your battery. Takes 5-10 minutes to fuel up a car depending on the size. I’d say your little extra time is saving you money lol

$15

For 8-10 years it’s free. Who’s gonna drive one car more than 10 years not my ass 😂

We're rural. We pay about the same.

We’re $0.12 a kWh, all in here in Seattle. And since gasoline is still a hair below $5 a gallon, the value proposition is very high for an EV.

Don't worry, once we all switch to EVs and states begin to lose gasoline revenue they'll make it up by taxing electricity....

We pay the highest electric rates in the country here on Long Island. Plugging in here does not cost any less compared to the gas vehicles that I drive so like they say, make an educated decision before buying.

@@Riverrafting Use California as the lead example. Since we have so many EVs and so much "green" generated electricity, we pay $0.36 off-peak TOU and as much $0.75/kWh during summer peak. What's more, the cost just keeps going up and up and up. The more we become dependant on "green", the more expensive it gets.

More than double. Off-peak winter rate is $0.36/kWh. On-peak summer rate is $0.75/kWh. On average, expect to pay around $0.45-$0.55/kWh. Using the "Prime" subsidized rate is about $0.10/kWh cheaper, but there is a basic charge that goes with it. At those prices, it's actually cheaper to drive a hybrid.

Gasoline is also about double the national average.

Not every 6 years, more like 10+ years

@@RRLV434and even then its not guaranteed. Plus things have come a long way from EVs of 10 years ago.

LOL, what a clown you are!

try much harder at a better worthy comment

ple? cant spell? another TROLL on EV's