Driving 100 Miles in an EV Is Now More Expensive Than in an ICE

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57. Yes. Comments here show how confused people are.

We don't know the methodology used in the report. Are they comparing only the cost to "fuel" ICE and EV?

What kind of driving are they considering? There is a big difference between local errand driving, commuting to work, and long distance driving.

As noted, EVs can be charged at home, for a lower cost, than EV stations. I think many in this thread are missing that.

Also, not mentioned, is that EVs are new, so actual maintenance costs are not well known, compared to ICE that have hundreds of years of data.

As my high school "general business" teacher told me: In a capitalist system, any new technology will be expensive at the beginning until adoption and competition makes that technology cheaply affordable to the middle and lower classes. Her example was the VCR, and then we got a history lesson about that, this was in 1989, all of us had cheap VCRs at home.

So the number of EV makers matters. Also the number of EV charging stations and companies providing that service matter.

Yes, it is very complicated to analyze the costs of EV vs ICE, and then throw that out for the masses to digest.