I'd quite like an EV but prices keep going up and up as demand increases. Even with today's high gas prices financially it doesn't make sense for me.
We calculated our estimated petrol savings and put down a deposit large enough such that our weekly finance payment and estimated charging cost combined would be ~75% of what we’re spending each week on petrol.
Now that petrol prices have skyrocketed, the finance cost of the car + charging cost is less than half of what we were spending in petrol.
So far we’re very happy. Our total running costs for our petrol car was around 28c per km, our total running costs for our EV are around 4c per km. (Total running costs = absolutely everything attributable to the vehicle: fuel/charging, servicing, insurance, tyres, wiper blades, …)
It sucks that the prices are high because it keeps some people out for the moment, but production is expanding as fast as it can. Capitalism makes it so the people with the deepest pockets will get EVs first, but that's still many less gas-powered cars off the roads, and we're still going to transition to EVs.
comparing ICE and EVs is not fair, because the latter one is susbisidized from everyone's money, without subsidy they are extremely expensive, their operation cost is same or higher (and let's better not talk about how long will last batteries long term and their replacement cost) despite low taxes
Also, a sibling comment[1] seems to say that gas prices have risen more thus making it now even more cheaper to drive an EV than an ICE.