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> Our gas costs are 7/8x less than what we pay for electricity. It makes so much to use an EV car. This is not Model Y related, but something we loved over the 6 months.

Is this badly worded, or is he saying electricity is 8x more expensive than gas?

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I agree. I fixed the line :) It was 8x cheaper compared to using gas. EV costs are currently around $25-30 monthly, whereas gas costs were around $200 and more. (Turkey, Ankara)

That makes sense, thanks!

I don't intend to drag this discussion on, but in my mind "8x cheaper" doesn't really make sense.

I would much prefer "electricity cost 1/8 the price" or "gas was 8x more expensive".

English strikes back. Makes sense, thanks for you feedback :)

Also stumbled over this. As he's "loving it", I assume he means driving an electric car reduced his cost for "fuel" per given time.

From subtext I read into the article that they might have another car that uses gas so that might explain "gas cost are 7/8x less."

As gas and electricity costs are very location dependent for me it doesn't matter much what exactly his meaning is.

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