In the UK the price of gas is currently around the equivalent of $7/gal at the cheapest due to how it’s taxed here and the absence of a subsidy.
Electricity is around 18c/kwh overnight.
I can’t understand how gas cars get sold here anymore at all.
Electricity is around 18c/kwh overnight.
I can’t understand how gas cars get sold here anymore at all.
Most of EU cities have the same issues. Due to appartment density an EV makes sense only if you own your house, run a cable from your flat to the street, or win the charging lottery and/or fight for a spot at some shared location.
Alternatively you can make it a routine to charge at a public spot while you go shopping, but it means you're double annoyed when it doesn't work out for whatever reason (spots already taken etc)
In the UK, you can get really cheap EVs because the china ev and battery market is open to them and their importers.
Further, because of the nature of both public transport and the city layout of the UK, there's much less of a need for long range EVs. Almost everything there is both walkable and within walking distance. It's very unlike the US.
I survived in the UK for 2 years on foot. It was really not that bad.
The Hyundai Kona Electric starts at £32,400. Which is ~$43,500 freedom bucks.
But there's very little reason why the majority of brits couldn't survive with the Dogood Zero which starts at £5,500 (and has a 50 mile range).
I ended up going with the RAV4. I just looked and the gas powered RAV4 is $29k, while the plug in hybrid model (toyota doesn’t do full EV) is $45k, so there is still a very big difference in price.
They do in other (non-US) markets, without subsidies.
PHEVs are a bad deal, always were. Only make sense if there's subsidies or tax advantages for buying them over pure combustion cars (unfortunately a thing in some markets). Most PHEVs are never charged and PHEV batteries are roughly 4x more expensive per kWh than EV batteries, so there is no cost benefit in the electric drivetrain.
It's true that I could choose more luxury or spaciousness on my ICE vs... well, everything else being better on the EV. But I wouldn't.
Much cheaper if you get a much smaller EV (which are much more available in the UK).
For example, the Dogood Zero uses 95Wh/mile which means $0.02/mile.