Nygman
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So I've had my electric car for a little over 2 months. And I constantly marvel at how fun it is to drive how cool it is to actually have an electric car. One thing I like to do is to figure out how much I save every time I drive the car. My other car is a Ford Flex EcoBoost. It's a great car but it's not the most fuel efficient thing in the world being twin turbo and requiring super unleaded. What I like to do is see how much electricity it takes to do a trip, and then compute the cost based on my electricity cost for home charging which at the moment is 28 cents a kilowatt.
So here is today's just trip to Manhattan from Westchester for a doctor's appointment. I wanted to share my math, because I think it is pretty cool.
I like to do comparisons against my other car which is The aforementioned Ford Flex EcoBoost. Based on years of experience owning this car and doing a similar trip into Manhattan, I would get about 12 mi per gallon, and fill up with super. The trip today was pretty standard, on the way in, it consisted of some fast driving and then that slowly yielded to some crazy traffic. On the way back there was light traffic until I exited the Bronx, where it cleared up and ended in some spirited driving down the Bronx River parkway. I follow the same route I always do so the mile per gallon estimate should be good to compare with. I will say I drove at higher speeds in the MachE And I would in the Ford Flex. So let's look at the economics.
I drove 46 mi round trip. In total I used 14.5 KWh on the drive and I pay .28 per Kw at home to recharge. So the cost expanded for the power consumed was a little over $4. Now let's compare to my Ford Flex, at it's typical 12 mpg on that exact trip. Just filled it up and Gas is 4.50 a gal for super. So it would have cost $17.10 If I would have driven it That's a savings of over $13. Not to mention that it was much more fun to drive a Ford MachE GT, and some of the curvy roads are quite fun to drive on and when the traffic kicked in on the way in during rush hour, the hands-free driving was amazing.
So yes there are more efficient electric cars on the market, but the efficiency at least for me when compared to my other car, makes the MachE is amazing value when you look at cost per mile. I have no complaints, In fact I'm driving it much more and I'm filling up the other car a lot less often, And hack it's more fun to drive a Mustang MachE GTPE, but knowing I'm saving money makes it even better. Coming from a Ford Mustang GT, that would have got similar gas mileage to my Ford Flex on the trip like this. The smiles per dollar per mile factor are definitely higher on the MachE.
So here is today's just trip to Manhattan from Westchester for a doctor's appointment. I wanted to share my math, because I think it is pretty cool.
I like to do comparisons against my other car which is The aforementioned Ford Flex EcoBoost. Based on years of experience owning this car and doing a similar trip into Manhattan, I would get about 12 mi per gallon, and fill up with super. The trip today was pretty standard, on the way in, it consisted of some fast driving and then that slowly yielded to some crazy traffic. On the way back there was light traffic until I exited the Bronx, where it cleared up and ended in some spirited driving down the Bronx River parkway. I follow the same route I always do so the mile per gallon estimate should be good to compare with. I will say I drove at higher speeds in the MachE And I would in the Ford Flex. So let's look at the economics.
I drove 46 mi round trip. In total I used 14.5 KWh on the drive and I pay .28 per Kw at home to recharge. So the cost expanded for the power consumed was a little over $4. Now let's compare to my Ford Flex, at it's typical 12 mpg on that exact trip. Just filled it up and Gas is 4.50 a gal for super. So it would have cost $17.10 If I would have driven it That's a savings of over $13. Not to mention that it was much more fun to drive a Ford MachE GT, and some of the curvy roads are quite fun to drive on and when the traffic kicked in on the way in during rush hour, the hands-free driving was amazing.
So yes there are more efficient electric cars on the market, but the efficiency at least for me when compared to my other car, makes the MachE is amazing value when you look at cost per mile. I have no complaints, In fact I'm driving it much more and I'm filling up the other car a lot less often, And hack it's more fun to drive a Mustang MachE GTPE, but knowing I'm saving money makes it even better. Coming from a Ford Mustang GT, that would have got similar gas mileage to my Ford Flex on the trip like this. The smiles per dollar per mile factor are definitely higher on the MachE.
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