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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by sokoloff on Sunday September 02, 2018 @07:36AM (#17896623)
I'm in MA (home of $0.20/kWh electricity) and my LEAF gets about 21 miles per dollar of energy. A comparable gas car would get ~13 miles per dollar of gasoline.

I think you're likely still saving money on the electric portion of your driving, as CA rates seem to be slightly lower than MA rates from a cursory Google search.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by gnicholas on Sunday September 02, 2018 @12:44PM (#17897564)
We pay a bit more than this for electricity, on the margin (they give you low rates on the first chunk but then it goes up from there).

But most of the difference is that our vehicle is nowhere near as efficient as yours. The 9kW/h battery only goes about 18-20 miles on a charge, and it costs more than the $1 that you pay to get that many miles.

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Re:Electric Vehicles’ Day Will Come, and It Might Come Suddenly by davidgould on Sunday September 02, 2018 @05:22PM (#17898731)
C-MAX only gets 2 miles per kWh? They should call it C-MIN. Most electric cars get around 4 miles per kWh.
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