And that is completely ignoring maintenance cost which tends to be a lot cheaper on EVs.

I wish they'd just tax the tires. Bigger vehicles, more tires, more wear.

$0.21 was from memory, so I pulled up my bill and it was actually low:

Southern California Edison on the time-of-use plan, charging during "Super off peak." Note that nowhere on the bill do they show one number for how much you pay per kWh. These numbers will change next month as we go from "Winter" to "Summer"

Delivery charges: $0.17664

CCA Cost responsibility surcharge: $0.02007

Nonbypassable charges: $0.00644 + $0.00591

Fixed recovery charge: $0.00619

Generation charge: $0.05958

Unless I typoed something again (oops 800k) that works out to $0.27 for the cheapest I can pay in winter. I compared last fall and this was by far the cheapest plan offered to me for overnight charging.

Varies widely by state and other factors. I'm at around $0.18 for 1kWh when you look at the overall bill including generation, supply, and all other fees.

(My car averages 3.3 miles / kWh, so ~$0.055 / mile assuming 100% charge efficiency... I'm using a 120V outlet so it's probably 75-80% charge efficiency, pushing the cost to ~$0.068 / mile.)

I was at $0.12 3 years ago, but rates have jumped (and there's two more years of planned rate increases coming up)

And yet half what they charge in some areas of California

I believe the smaller wheels accelerate better because they are lighter, but corner worse. The smaller wheels also get better efficiency.

Maybe just due to lift. Thinner wheels and lower car is better aerodynamics

Yes and no. I'd think residential plumber or HVAC service tech can easily drive more than the stated range just going from job to job during a day. They're going to want to be sure that they don't have to stop to charge between jobs; time is money for those guys, and especially if the fast charging infrastructure is not well built out in their area it could be a showstopper.

City Vans have completely died in America for the last few years until the Promaster City's recent resurrection. Something like this is a dire need for in city tradesmen in the US.

My boss's have been asking me how life is with my Ford E-Transit, but it doesn't have enough range for most of our site technicians which end up driving 200-300 miles a day.

Ford Maverick is a hybrid for about the same price and I could definitely lean more easily towards that kind combo at the moment.

The Transit Connect is discontinued in North America and was only ever a plug in hybrid here (outside a 500 unit collaboration in the early 2010s) but maybe one of the newer electric variants of the Transit lines will make its way over some time (e.g. looks like the Ford E-Tourneo Courier is an all electric in Europe).

It's possible they will offer financing for that. From a business strategy perspective it would be almost unimaginable that they wouldn't.

If these become popular it should be reasonable to expect the aftermarket to provide less expensive options. These are clearly where Slate's margin will live right now.

Time was, CAFE forced Detroit to build affordable cars which folks could buy new --- rather miss that --- that said, I'm never going to buy an all-electronic vehicle w/ multiple screens (still annoyed about the radio on my current vehicle going out) GPS tracking and built-in monitoring by way of a backup camera and so forth.

There are new hybrids available for $30k. There are new vehicles available for $22k. There are reasonable used vehicles available for $10k.

The problem with the Slate isn't that cheaper vehicles exist. The problem with the Slate is that you can buy nicer, better equipped vehicles for the same price.

On the flip side, if you want a car that doesn't try to track you and record you, and doesn't upsell you on a subscription for seatwarmers, and doesn't use gas, Slate looks pretty attractive.

The versa is dead now. The Hyundai Venue is now the cheapest base model vehicle in America at nearly $22k.

I can find 1000 watts of electric anyplace. However to get any reasonable range from that means my car has to sit there 3-4 days! This works for me because I only make the long trips on weekends (I ride my bike to work when the weather allows).

For practical EV purposes there is not electric everywhere. If there isn't enough at home chargers are hard to find. Sure they are all over - but they are not advertised and not at every exit: you need an app to find them. Using an app is not safe when you are driving so you better have someone else with you to figure out how to find them or plan ahead.

Lots of people only have street parking or their apartment complex has detached parking where they can't realistically charge overnight.

But otherwise... Yeah, That's absolutely amazing to wake up every morning to a full tank/charge