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Originally Posted by Nellmack
I'll try to answer your question but please understand that I don't drive an electric car for what I save on electricity. I drive it for #1 performance (it can accelerate to 60 mph in under 2 seconds. I don't drive fast but there are times when that power comes in handy) # 2 the environment.
According to my Tesla App I charge at my house 70% of the time, 3% at Tesla Superchargers, 6% at my office and 21% at my vacation house. I pay $0.15 per kWh everywhere except the Tesla Supercharger, I pay $0.44 per kWh there. I believe a full charge would be 116kWh so if charging from my house it would be 116 x $0.15 = $17.40 for a full charge. You can't take the mileage they publish as gospel because I usually drive about 10mph over the speed limit (which means I use more power). So a full (daily) charge of 340 miles might mean I'll get 315 miles of actual driving. My usual routine is to charge my car like my phone, I plug it in at night and start every day with a full charge. On average I probably use about 30% of my battery every day so 30% of 116kWh is 34.8 kWh x $0.15 = $5.22 for a 30% charge.
I hope this helps.
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I can understand that electric vehicles would help the environment if the electricity for charging the vehicles could be generated from renewable sources, like solar and wind. But, currently, very little of our electricity is generated that way. Couldn't we help the environment more by getting power plants to generate all electricity from renewable souces, especially our houses? You said that you drive an electric vehicle for the environment, but you are charging your vehicle from your house electricity that is most likely generated from fossil fuels. How does that help the environment?