chronal4720

> The gas savings vs electricity consumed were huge, about $10k

Not in California.

Many people charge exclusively at superchargers and pay $42+ for 250 miles of range ($0.60+/kWh peak hours after work).

That’s 6-8 gallons in an ICE car. At $5/gallon this makes EV supercharging more expensive than gasoline.

> If you take care of it and mostly keep it between 25-75% and don't supercharge it too often

For used cars, you don’t know what the previous owner did.

> For someone that drives 10-15K km a year there's maybe 30 years more driving on this battery (400K km).

EV battery life is more related to calendar age, rather than number of charge cycles and C charging rate.

> How long does the battery last though?

Tesla gives 8 years for battery warranty.

Interpret that as you may.

In reality, too early to tell. But probably not 20+ years like a Toyota/Honda engine or even a Mercedes/BMW/Porsche engine.

> If anything I'd be much more worried about an engine/transmission dying in an ICE car because you need to know how the car was driven and maintained by the previous owner(s).

ICE car dies after X miles are driven.

EV car dies after X years have elapsed, regardless of mileage.

> Don’t ICE cars require a lot more maintenance per mile than EVs?

Model 3/Y battery replacement is US$15,000 to US$20,000.

Wipes out all other EV maintenance cost advantages.

> If ethics don’t influence your investment choice, then you have no ethics.

yeah, I have no ethics

TC $800k