It’s insanely cool to charge your car from your own solar panels, and drive almost for free. The only “cost” is what you would have received from selling the electricity instead, and selling electricity is for peanuts compared to buying.
At least that’s how it works here in Denmark.It’s even more of a no-brainer in Quebec, where gasoline is almost $2/litre (USD $5.50 per US gallon), but electricity is only about $0.07/kWh.
I wish there were more plug-in hybrids. I know there’s added complexity in the mechanics, but I’ve been enjoying 99+% electric driving for almost 10 years now and I feel like more would be willing to try it out if they had that “just in case” gas backup instead of having to take a full plunge all at once. They may find that they don’t need that extended range as much as they’d think.
PHEVs accomplish exactly this. It’s good to hear that people are actually mostly charging their PHEVs according to this recent Toyota study.
I drive about 1500 mi/mo. Switching to an EV dropped my monthly fueling cost from $150-200 to $50-60. Plus the savings from not having to get oil changes every 5-6 months…
Cool, can I borrow 50k for a non piece of shit one?
I bought mine for 23k. Good deals are out there
