(January 27, 2019 at 1:31 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(January 27, 2019 at 12:19 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: I own an EV. I am fully depreciating the value of the car over the lifetime of the battery pack. Including maintanence and fuel costs, it blows away even our gas powered Kia in terms of TCO and $/mile. Even accounting for a battery pack replacement at around 100k miles it STILL blows away our Kia. Also, battery pack replacement is nowhere near 5 figures. Maybe in a Tesla...The 5 figure is for Tesla.
I priced the battery for a Leaf a while back. It was $5500 plus labor.
I can buy a whole lotta gas with that.
100k miles @ 25 mpg and $3.00 / gallon = $12,000
100k miles at 4kwh / mile and .08/kWh = $2000
(Priced according to local conditions - electricity is dirt cheap and gas is fairly expensive)
That ten grand difference easily buys a battery pack and quite a bit more. (2014 leaf battery is $5500 + 3 hours labor).
We can conpare maintenance costs over 100K miles too, if you like. Wipers and tires here, and maybe brakes far after 100K.
Sure you can throw out use cases where EVs don't work well but total cost of ownership is not one of them, even with a battery pack replacement
