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Originally Posted by Camaro fanboy
loving this nissan leaf for commuting. car comes with an app. the app is saying up to now 600 miles driven and has cost us 12 USD in electric on our fixed rate tariff.
600 miles in a petrol car would have cost us about 120 usd.
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I’m a gas car fan so I hate admitting this but if someone has a driveway it really is the superior choice from a fiscal standpoint. Even if you like to take the family on road trips you’ll still come out on top money wise if you rent a gas car for a road trip or two each year. I also hate seeing people with clear bias posting BS about batteries going out in 5, 6 years (which I have seen on this forum before). News flash they come with a MINIMUM 8 year 100k warranty. Many Tesla’s (by the way I hate this company) have proven to go well beyond that point. The majority of people buying new cars don’t even keep their cars that long.
I also keep reading on here people talking about battery degradation. Well your gas engine loses some power and efficiency as well over the years.
Again I will point out that electric cars don’t work for everyone. But for those that it does work for its superior from a FISCAL standpoint. I also agree with people who have posted that they don’t want these first batches/runs of electric cars because they will probably have some issues. When the next Gen of electric cars comes out and I can get them used for 15ish k (I acknowledge this is probably 15 years away) that’s when I will get one. If I wasn’t a fan of gas cars/sports cars and only needed one car for daily driver duties, I’d strongly consider a 3 year old electric car and maybe purchase an extended warranty. I like saving money and it would save me a few thousand a year. I also like that I don’t physically have to go to get it charged and can do it at home.