Most
people know the cost of driving a car that runs on regular gasoline.
You take the price of the fuel per gallon, and divide it by the Miles
Per Gallon (MPG) number that your car yields. The resulting number is
the “cost per mile” in variable fuel cost terms.
So
far, in the switch to electric cars, the cost of electricity per mile
driven, has not been the subject of much discussion. It’s just somehow
assumed that an electric car costs less to drive than a gasoline car.
There are at least two reasons for this:
- Many early adopters don’t care about the cost of the fuel (electricity) because all they want is to try the new technology. Trying new technology is, after all, cool in and of itself - especially tech for sports cars.
- Many early adopters pay literally nothing for the electricity. Why? Because they charge their cars almost exclusively at one location: Their office, during the day, where the electricity is provided free-of-charge. You just can’t beat 100% free.
However, most of the world does not look like the parking lot at Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
headquarters, or many other larger companies in Silicon Valley. Most
people in the world don’t live in houses with safe garage space, and
most people don’t work at large Silicon Valley companies, where EVs make
up a disproportionate share of the employee car park.
Dead |
Spontaneous combustion, driver and family killed |
Dead, after blowing up then crashing |