In California my electricity to drive my Chevy Volt is more expensive than gasoline, if gasoline is less than $5 a gallon. So for basically the last 100k miles I've owned it, electricity was more expensive. The same goes for many plugin hybrids. Luxury EVs still win out because luxury sedans usually only get 25 mpg mixed max.

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lostlogin a day ago | parent | next [-]

US fuel is so cheap compared to the rest of the world.

If my maths is correct, we are paying US$6.10 a gallon here in NZ.

	▲	nicoburns a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In the UK the average price is (by my math) ~US$7.50
	▲	jopsen a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In Denmark fuel is so expensive they sell it by litre :)

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fc417fc802 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I knew the CA grid was in a bad place but wow. What are you paying per kWh?

	▲	throwawaytea a day ago \| parent [-]
		$0.44 A first gen Volt takes 10.3kwh. It also uses electricity to cool the batteries while charging. If you leave it plugged in one a hot day it will cool the battery just for health overall but I'll ignore that. Then, add in the losses on the charge conversions. It easily takes 11kwh to charge a Volt. It'll go about 35 miles in the summer on that charge, and more like 28 in the winter. It also gets 35 mpg on gasoline, while providing free heat in the winter from the gas engine heat, and for most of the last few years was doing this for $3.50-$4 a gallon. There are people on Southern California/San Diego that pay more. Over there people say the Prius Prime is WAY cheaper to operate on gas because it gets 50mpg gasoline. I've even heard people running their home off gasoline because it's cheaper but that would require an impressive gas generator to do long term.