Electric cars are good for you, save money on gas
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And that's for a plug-in hybrid, which is a bigger battery than a hybrid but much smaller than an EV. I hope the dealership bought him dinner first.
e: https://backthetruckup.com/30000-invoice-is-real/
So their excuse is the battery is "a dinosaur." It's a 2012, way to stick it to the critics that say EVs are like iphones.
e2: So I did some back of the napkin math. If he'd bought a Chevy Malibu instead he would have, in the absolute worst case, spent $13,000 on gas. Considering his car is so low mileage I'm going to assume he used very little gas and mostly used the battery, so at best he spent $2,000 on electricity. So he spent about $15,000 more originally and then saved $11,000 but then paid $30,000, which to be fair should have totaled the car instead (it's like an iphone after all). $34,000 in the hole, and that's best case; I'm assuming all city miles, only using the battery and cheap electricity. Wow.
It may be a dinosaur, but when you buy a car that expensive, 10 years is not "a dinosaur".
Maybe that one is, but say I buy an electric car tomorrow. What is to say in a number of years everything moves on to some new fancy battery style or whatever and suddenly mine is a "dinosaur" after only 8 years or something. This does not give me a good feeling of buying an electric car now unless there have been many years of having battery replacements that dont' total the car just cause "my car is a bit old."
Which in the scheme of cars, 10 years is not even that old..... dang...