How much gas needs to cost that EV is cheaper?

[DJVoorhees]

So how is it possible for low income people who can't afford EV to afford gas at $40-60 for full tank. But not be able to afford an EV, that could essentially making driving way cheaper? I thought at some point, people would realize EV is cheaper, go buy EVs, and then gas stations would start lowering their price or going outta business because everyone decided they don't wanna pay $4 gallon to go 20-40 miles. But it seems some people are still driving piece of crap gas cars and still can afford $40-60 for tank of gas every week. At some point, wouldn't EV make sense for low income people, or anyone that just wants to save money? What if gas was $10 / gallon, making it $150 per full tank, I think some parts of Europe are around that.

If someone buys a $1000 car, it be like 16 fill ups and they already spent more on gas than the actual car. So even if you buy a piece of crap car, you can't buy piece of crap gas. Well you can, but its only like 20-40 cents cheaper at $3-4 gallon and that's enough to be a bargain.

I don't really know how to calculate how much it costs to charge my EV, but I always charge at night and live in OC Southern CA. My SCE electric bill is on autopay so I don't really check it, but it's usually $200-300 month. But that's for everything, so the EV is only a part of it, but I have no idea what percent is my EV charging.

Seems like you can get a used EV for around $5000
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Quite a privileged opinion. $100 or so in gas a month, compared to 500-700 a month in car payment.

 

[Garlan Garner]

So how is it possible for low income people who can't afford EV to afford gas at $40-60 for full tank. But not be able to afford an EV, that could essentially making driving way cheaper? I thought at some point, people would realize EV is cheaper, go buy EVs, and then gas stations would start lowering their price or going outta business because everyone decided they don't wanna pay $4 gallon to go 20-40 miles. But it seems some people are still driving piece of crap gas cars and still can afford $40-60 for tank of gas every week. At some point, wouldn't EV make sense for low income people, or anyone that just wants to save money? What if gas was $10 / gallon, making it $150 per full tank, I think some parts of Europe are around that.

If someone buys a $1000 car, it be like 16 fill ups and they already spent more on gas than the actual car. So even if you buy a piece of crap car, you can't buy piece of crap gas. Well you can, but its only like 20-40 cents cheaper at $3-4 gallon and that's enough to be a bargain.

I don't really know how to calculate how much it costs to charge my EV, but I always charge at night and live in OC Southern CA. My SCE electric bill is on autopay so I don't really check it, but it's usually $200-300 month. But that's for everything, so the EV is only a part of it, but I have no idea what percent is my EV charging.

Seems like you can get a used EV for around $5000
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Electricity is already FAR cheaper than Gas.

The cost of an EV is higher than an ICE car in some cases, but to answer your question Electricity is far cheaper than GAS.


Don't mix the price of Electricity with the price of the cars. <------ Those are 2 different discussions.

 

[Garlan Garner]

The advice is always the same. Don't buy 1 (insert car here) if you can't easily afford 2 (insert car here).

It's stupid to buy a car to save money.

If you buy a car to save money from the expenses of your current one.........then by all means do so. IMHO

 

[2012MS85]

My parents already transferred a lot of money into a Fidelity account. If he found out how much I had, he probably hate me.

Perhaps your parents could buy this poor divorced guy an EV, and then he could quickly pay you off the $160 he owes you...with all his gas money saved! Poor guy problem solved

 

[dhrivnak]

So how is it possible for low income people who can't afford EV to afford gas at $40-60 for full tank. But not be able to afford an EV, that could essentially making driving way cheaper? I thought at some point, people would realize EV is cheaper, go buy EVs, and then gas stations would start lowering their price or going outta business because everyone decided they don't wanna pay $4 gallon to go 20-40 miles. But it seems some people are still driving piece of crap gas cars and still can afford $40-60 for tank of gas every week. At some point, wouldn't EV make sense for low income people, or anyone that just wants to save money? What if gas was $10 / gallon, making it $150 per full tank, I think some parts of Europe are around that.

If someone buys a $1000 car, it be like 16 fill ups and they already spent more on gas than the actual car. So even if you buy a piece of crap car, you can't buy piece of crap gas. Well you can, but its only like 20-40 cents cheaper at $3-4 gallon and that's enough to be a bargain.

I don't really know how to calculate how much it costs to charge my EV, but I always charge at night and live in OC Southern CA. My SCE electric bill is on autopay so I don't really check it, but it's usually $200-300 month. But that's for everything, so the EV is only a part of it, but I have no idea what percent is my EV charging.

Seems like you can get a used EV for around $5000
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We can ask you the same question as how can you continue to pay the power company $200-$300 each month and not have gone solar? We should be careful judge and it looks like I broke my own rule here.

 

[Rottenapplr]

We can ask you the same question as hoe can you continue to pay the power company $200-$300 each mont and not have gone solar?

Ha true. I think my electric bill is about 20-30 per month is solar. Then an additional 50 for my charging. Not bad.

 

[TLLMRRJ]

Quite a privileged opinion. $100 or so in gas a month, compared to 500-700 a month in car payment.

And no credit! If they ever get a loan, it’s basically at loan shark rates with the repo man waiting for them to be late on one payment.

 

[PACEMD]

You can't afford to be poor in the United States of America. Too expensive. Literally everything cost more..........