To hit a few points a lot of people miss:
1. Electricity prices vary a huge amount regionally. Much more than gasoline. Ignoring solar users, people can pay around $.06/kWh up to $.45/kWh hour. That's 7.5x more expensive. It changes the ROI a huge amount.
2. Trucks have the easiest break even point as long as you can home charge or charge at work. AAA says gas is $4.80/gal on average. Electricity prices on average are about $.16/kWh. A F-150 V8 gets 18mpg about. A F-150 Lightning gets about 2.4mi/kWh mixed. To go 100 miles, $26.67 gasoline and the EV would be $6.67. So over a year, assuming 15k miles, you're talking about $3000/year savings in fuel. If you drive a lot of highway miles or live in a cold climate, your savings will be less significant. Charging using commercial chargers you won't see any savings and it wouldn't surprise me if you spend more that way.
3. If you're a conservative individual worried about end of days or just wanting to be more self sufficient, an EV, at least in the short term, is 100% a better choice than a gasoline vehicle. You can build an off grid solar setup and be completely energy independent and fuel independent for not a lot of money. The new trend, which Ford has done with their F-150, is bi-directional charging, which has already been mentioned.
4. The actual charging unit and plug are literally the least of your concern. The money spent can and should be seen as an investment as in the next 10 years, there will be an expectation to have a 14-50 plug in every garage/driveway. Not to mention, there are many incentives to do the installation right now. Some companies are even paying to install the outlet.
5. One point I make to a lot of people is buying an EV right now means you're an early adapter. There are plenty of good points of being an early adapter but there are also many bad. With that said, there are many incentives right now to pay for the inconvenience. The $7500 tax credit covers quite a few inconveniences. Not to mention, I charge my vehicle for free most weeks. I've never gotten free gasoline before.
6. Frankly, the things people without EVs complain about are often not the things to complain about. For example: Charging infrastructure is a problem, but I'd argue a bigger problem is route mapping and verifying charger availability/condition. Only Tesla does this right (as of now). For a non-Tesla, you need anywhere between 2 to 8 different apps to go on a road trip. It's clunky and requires too much planning at times.
One thing I'll say is most people who buy an EV have no interest in going back to an ICE. The overall experience of driving an EV is better in most situations. With that said, there are outliers who buy EVs and switch back because EVs don't work for their lifestyle.
1. Electricity prices vary a huge amount regionally. Much more than gasoline. Ignoring solar users, people can pay around $.06/kWh up to $.45/kWh hour. That's 7.5x more expensive. It changes the ROI a huge amount.
2. Trucks have the easiest break even point as long as you can home charge or charge at work. AAA says gas is $4.80/gal on average. Electricity prices on average are about $.16/kWh. A F-150 V8 gets 18mpg about. A F-150 Lightning gets about 2.4mi/kWh mixed. To go 100 miles, $26.67 gasoline and the EV would be $6.67. So over a year, assuming 15k miles, you're talking about $3000/year savings in fuel. If you drive a lot of highway miles or live in a cold climate, your savings will be less significant. Charging using commercial chargers you won't see any savings and it wouldn't surprise me if you spend more that way.
3. If you're a conservative individual worried about end of days or just wanting to be more self sufficient, an EV, at least in the short term, is 100% a better choice than a gasoline vehicle. You can build an off grid solar setup and be completely energy independent and fuel independent for not a lot of money. The new trend, which Ford has done with their F-150, is bi-directional charging, which has already been mentioned.
4. The actual charging unit and plug are literally the least of your concern. The money spent can and should be seen as an investment as in the next 10 years, there will be an expectation to have a 14-50 plug in every garage/driveway. Not to mention, there are many incentives to do the installation right now. Some companies are even paying to install the outlet.
5. One point I make to a lot of people is buying an EV right now means you're an early adapter. There are plenty of good points of being an early adapter but there are also many bad. With that said, there are many incentives right now to pay for the inconvenience. The $7500 tax credit covers quite a few inconveniences. Not to mention, I charge my vehicle for free most weeks. I've never gotten free gasoline before.
6. Frankly, the things people without EVs complain about are often not the things to complain about. For example: Charging infrastructure is a problem, but I'd argue a bigger problem is route mapping and verifying charger availability/condition. Only Tesla does this right (as of now). For a non-Tesla, you need anywhere between 2 to 8 different apps to go on a road trip. It's clunky and requires too much planning at times.
One thing I'll say is most people who buy an EV have no interest in going back to an ICE. The overall experience of driving an EV is better in most situations. With that said, there are outliers who buy EVs and switch back because EVs don't work for their lifestyle.