Unsold electric vehicles are piling up – people like the idea but are not buying them::The U.S. supply of unsold EVs on dealer lots has swelled 350 per cent so far this year

  • anage_oldprob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Something else seems off here. Plugin hybrids generally have a battery capacity of around 15 kWh giving you about 30 miles of all battery range. Average electricity prices are about $0.15 a kWh It should cost about $2.25 to charge your battery effectively giving you your first tank of gas 40% off.

    To reach $600 of charging you would have charged that battery roughly 265 times and driven 8000 miles just on the battery which is quiet a feat given the 30 miles of just battery range that most PHEVs have. Higher electricity costs obviously change this but you’d have to have outrageous prices and driving habits to hit $600 of charging especially on a PHEV.

    • db2@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      No new appliances, everything is in working order, nothing running more than usual.

      You may still be right if charging the EV made an existing problem more obvious which is entirely possible. I have no idea what such a problem could be though.