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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Electric vehicles pass tipping point in much of Europe: lifetime cost matches petrol cars (www.beuc.eu)

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Electric cars have crossed lifetime cost parity with petrol vehicles across much of Europe. In the used-car market they now have the lowest total cost of ownership.

Newer models even match petrol cars in estimated lifespan, that's something early EVs could not claim.

This study shows that any new electric vehicle sold today will bring financial benefits to its second and third owner. New electric cars registered now will deliver between €262 and €849/year savings for their future second and third owners compared to an equivalent petrol car.

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

(not OP) We have 2 tier electricity prices here for consumers...

I'm just going to skip the 1st because a bill of $480 would put them into tier 2 so fast.

Tier 2 is $0.1408 CAD/kWh

That's 3,409kWh.

An Ionic 5 has 63kWh/220miles for a standard range.

That's 54 battery cycles a month, or 11,880miles a month.

Account for some losses along the way and lets just call it 10k miles a month.

At least that's what it would be here.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah 10k miles is more than what I drive in a year and they're doing it in a month 😅. I am thinking that $480 may be at retail DC charging prices rather than home power usage prices because I'm not sure who would drive that much and not be driving for work (which would then be an unreasonable comparison to others buying EVs).

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Ah, ya maybe there's no home charging. Electricity rates here are pretty cheap though, they could be somewhere where it's much more as well which would bring the miles down a lot. California would be more than double what I pay for example.