VegasWeezy
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- First Name
- Brian
- Joined
- Apr 24, 2022
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- Location
- Las Vegas
- Vehicles
- 2022 Premium MME ER RWD in Space White
- Occupation
- Accountant
Where do you live? In Las Vegas, there is only one choice of electricity supplier. NV Energy is a regulated monopoly here, so we have no options.Shop suppliers. I just lowered my rate from $0.14612 to $0.1039 with a 33 month lock, no fees, cancel/switch anytime, etc. That shaves over $40/month off my bill even in winter, more in summer(at least until my solar gets installed).
My cost to drive 100 miles in winter is $3.82
Energy cost $0.1472 (including distribution charge)
260wH/m or 3.85m/kWh average since December 2022 purchase, so ALL cold weather driving.
Summertime should drop that to about $3, although I hope to have solar up and running by then.
The Kia has a lifetime average of about 3.6m/kWh which includes last summers driving.
So $4.09/100 miles lifetime.
My guess for winter only driving is 3.2m/kWh which would be $4.60. Actually, this number is probably significantly lower as we've gotten A LOT of free charging. We made a 400 mile weekly round trip commute with free DC fast charging for several months!
Based on my cost of $3.82 compared to the ICE car cost in the article, I thought of a new title for the article:
WOW ICE CARS 300% MORE EXPENSIVE TO FUEL THEN EV'S!!!!!
However, I do have solar panels but I did not factor that into my calculations for the charging costs to be fair in the comparison of EV vs ICE.
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