Just another anti-EV article…
Just another anti-EV article. EV drivers know that charging speeds drop dramatically at 80%. When on long trips you drive to around 10-20% and then charge to around 80%. Just last Sunday I drove 272.5 miles and stopped to charge at 10%. I added 54.576 kWh to the car in 34 minutes. That got me to 69%, which was more than enough to get to my next stop. So I added over 180 miles in those 34 minutes (the speed limits were slower in the upcoming miles, so the efficacity was going to be higher).
Cost was $30.52 or about 17 cents a mile. Which is crazy high, but those first 272.5 miles were at 12 cents a kWh which works out to $9.828 total or 3.6 cents per mile which is crazy cheap. Total for the trip was about $56.135 or 10.3 cents per mile, which at $3.60 a gallon a car would have to get 35 MPG to match the cost. I don't know of a 35 MPG car that is as nice to drive as my Mach E.
EVs for people with driveways are a great way to go. They are dirt cheap to drive around town. On long trips, it depends. The longer the trip, the less the advantage and for my Mach E vs my old hybrid somewhere around 500 miles at current gas and electric prices is where the hybrid starts to be cheaper to fuel. At no point is the hybrid more fun to drive.