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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
I hang out on the Mustang Mach E forum to really understand how EV owners interface with their MMEs. Just yesterday a member posted about his round trip from Pittsburgh to Cleveland to drop his wife off at Hopkins airport (not sure why she didn't fly out of Pittsburgh). It was a 152-mile one-way trip. He posted the fueling stats and showed that driving the MME was the same fuel cost as driving an ICEV at 25 MPG on regular fuel at $3.30/gal.
It was his first road trip in the MME, so he played with the on-the-road charging infrastructure and used both a Tesla network station (MME have an adapter for Tesla) and a non-Tesla CCA charging station. His overall round trip was 359 miles for a fuel cost of $37, which included a 100% SOC from home using $0.09 kWh residential electrical rate (the internet says Pittsburgh avg. rate is $0.20). Do all the math and that comes out to $0.15 per-mile for fuel cost. My E90 at 27 MPG and requiring $4.00 premium would do the same trip at $0.15 per-mile and not need to refuel mid-trip. The OP of that story spent over an hour at two recharging points to refuel; my E90 would have required just 5 minutes to fuel up at the start of the trip.
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LOL, I also hang out at the mach e forum as I've owned two over the last three plus years.
In real terms how many trips does the average person make needing recharging? I'm retired but almost all my miles are around town. Public charging is indeed very expensive BUT the home charging costs make up for that. My electricity rate including all taxes and fees is 16 cents kwh. On my GT I average about 3.3 mi/kwh. SO, my costs for charging is roughly 5 cents a mile. Factor in the fact that the car requires no service like oil changes etc. Makes it a huge win.
That said, if I did not have home charging access, no way would I consider an EV.