Economics of electric vehicles

I have talked about this for years – if you look at the costs that are associated with vehicle use nothing beats electric vehicles. A new report from BNP Paribas has just been released that quantifies these impacts for oil price.

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Knowing what an EV daily user like me knows, one could have guessed, but the calculation from the report cited in Forbes says it best:

The long-term break-even oil price for gasoline to remain competitive is $9-$10pb, and for diesel $17-$19pb.

Although this sounds far-fetched today, this is what a disruption looks like before it happens. Well-developed technology and sound economic performance are behind it.

In real life… In August in order not to fly I drove 2342 km, charging my car from solar and in public locations on longer stretches. And for the times that I had to pay for public charging the total was 22.43 €. Can you beat that on a fossil fuel car?

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