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[onlinebiker]

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

We get 35 mpg on average - gas is $2.18 a gallon - and I didn't spend anywhere close to what an electric or hybrid costs.

If you like them, fine. They do have a certain cool factor. 

I' ll stick to something I can work on. I don' t like making rich dealerships richer.

Edit to add.

Gas just went lower. $1.85 a gallon.