Interesting datapoint on electric-vehicle fueling.
...Charging an EV is also more expensive than filling up a gas car, costing $12.95 per 100 miles compared to the $8.58 per 100 miles it costs to fuel a comparable vehicle with an internal combustion engine, the AEG report found. The study factored in the cost of electricity, EV registration taxes, cost of home chargers and “deadhead miles” or travel costs for time spent driving to a commercial charging station....
The real problem, currently, (heh) is that high-speed charges are not easily found--and you have to drive quite a ways to get to one.
An EV is just fine as a grocery-getter; you can charge it at home (even with 120V) in less than a day and go back to the store, or church, or restaurant, and not worry about running out of fuel. But it's a damned expensive grocery-getter.
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