How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and profitability

Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by castratikron on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:33AM (#13558184)

You need to take into account the cost to the environment of burning gasoline. The true cost is closer to something like $8 a gallon. So now it's up to about $1/kWh. As someone else has already mentioned, Tesla's packs are about $190/kWh. You'd only need about 190 cycles before that starts breaking even, which could probably be done in a couple years.

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by proee on Friday February 03, 2017 @02:11AM (#13558296)

Then.... take into account the cost to the environment of mining lithium and all the other elements going into the batteries and associated power electronics.

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by audunw on Friday February 03, 2017 @03:24AM (#13558532)

True, but that's a one time cost. Once EVs have a significant market share, everything will probably be recycled.

And if we play this game, to get it even, maybe we should compare the whole car since gasoline requires a big engine too.

My impression is that analysis which takes everything into account puts EVs far ahead in environmental impact, and I think they're slightly ahead in terms of total ownership costs.

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Re:How automakers can drive electrified vehicle sales and pr... by comicjk on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:54AM (#13559753)

Every gallon of oil that's taken out of the ground (besides plastics) goes into the air. Mining waste is very local and tractable compared to that.

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