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Old 06-24-2025, 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by BrianL99 View Post
Right now, if you can't "charge at home", the economic model changes drastically. There's no free lunch.
Since prices vary around the country, AAA has a nice Fuel Price page that gives the average price of gas and EV charging in each state. Use EV efficiency at 3-4 miles/kWh to compare cost/mile. Some states are more expensive than others but overall this matches the chatGPT traffic.

Not owning an EV myself, I had no idea that electricity from public chargers cost three to four times what we pay at home.
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