With all this hummer/cyber stuff...It has me thinking about EV’s. As most of you will probably assume via my current fleet or me just being me on here; I don’t want one. I don’t hate EV’s or anything like that, I just don’t like most new cars period. EV’s come with the additional caveat of not making any sense for me personally. So I always shrug them off, but I’m trying to keep an open mind here, so I went to some math.
Assuming 12k miles per year (I don’t do that much on one car) that’s 40 tanks @ 300 miles per tank (I do much better than that on the Alltrack). Then, keeping with the safe numbers we’ll assume $3/gallon. If I really wait until I’m on E the alltrack takes about 13 gallons. So $39 per tank x 40 tanks in a year is.....$1,500? And that is a high estimate.
From my 2 seconds of googling it looks like you’re going at least 30k on a new EV. You could own a Honda Fit or similar for more than a decade before you make that gap up.
I don’t have a point here. I’m not arguing for or against. I’m just stumped that the fuel savings is so little.
This post brought to you by a foggy Wednesday.