Originally Posted by
PhilipA
Er so you paid twice what an equivalent ICE car would cost new to save say $1000 per year in fuel, and lose say 200 hours waiting for charging.
Note you are the one talking about saving money on fuel.
I always find this a very amusing argument particularly from $150K Tesla owners.
Regards PhilipA
Yeah ... I'm always amused by this rationale too.
It used to cost my dad about $10(or less) to go to Ballarat and back in his little 307HDi .. and the car itself cost him less than $4K.
I did it once and it averaged 3.7lt/100 on the highway section(Melton-Ballarat-Melton).
I'd love to see how much actual range an EV would get to Ballarat(there are steep hills on the way up) as opposed to their claimed range.
In saying that tho, I have been considering a very small EV type vehicle as an option for just getting to work and back ... like a Leaf or something like that.
But those small modern diesels do make a hell of a lot more sense over the long run.
Arthur.
'99 D1 300Tdi Auto
'03 D2 Td5 Auto
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