Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests

Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by bluGill on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @11:05AM (#14453074)

> Factor in the time you save by never having to run the myriad errands required of petrol car owners

Actually the EV takes MORE time fore those myriad tasks. With the EV you take an extra minute every night to plug it in, and an extra minute to unplug it in the morning (most of this is time to coil the chord - maybe the time is only 30 seconds, it of course depends on how the location of the charger relates to the front door). With a gas car you spend 10 minutes once every two weeks to put in more gas. As a result the EV cots you 5 minutes a week.

Note that the time for an EV is part of the routine so it is easy to forget about it, but it is still real time.

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Re:Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research... by stcredzero on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:37PM (#14473118)

Actually the EV takes MORE time fore those myriad tasks.

No, you still save time. Since those 30 seconds are folded into each non-car errand, they really come out of the errand/task-context-switch overhead. By requiring fewer errands, you actually save time.

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