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Originally Posted by island911
In Hawaii it might make sense. (energy is expensive there, and it's sunny)
Just about everywhere else it does not come close.
Weird how some still believe that electric cars are some sort of undeniably awesome alternative. They are not. Electric cars are exceedingly expensive against the backdrop of massive petro reserves and existing infrastructure.
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Gas engines don't like to be started and stopped every couple of minutes. Electric doesn't care.
The expensive part of an electric car is the battery, and for <20 miles/day you don't need much battery. We're not talking a Telsa here.
As for running costs, according to this
https://avt.inl.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf
it looks like an electric car will have cost/mile about 1/2 to 1/3 of a gas car. Assuming 20 cent/kWh electricity and $3.00/gal gas.