September 30th, 2018 | by Michael Barnard
The report is another data point showing that a family's total cost of ownership of electric cars is better than for gasoline or diesel vehicles. And with all of the other benefits — including health, much lower greenhouse gas emissions and typically greater safety — it's not hard to see that the shift to electric cars will only accelerate
May 20th, 2017 | by Steve Hanley
Analysts for UBS have torn apart a perfectly good Chevy Bolt to see how it is put together. What they found led them to make this rather startling announcement: the “total cost of consumer ownership [of electric cars] can reach parity with combustion engines from 2018." Notice that doesn't mean an electric car and a conventional car will cost the same to buy new. It means they will cost the same to own, figuring in maintenance, cost of fuel, insurance, and all the other factors that are part of the total cost of ownership
September 3rd, 2016 | by Zachary Shahan
Depreciation is an interesting creature, and especially so for the fast-changing auto market and newbie electric car market. In my [&hellip
June 20th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
Continuing the electric car cost vs gas car cost discussion, here’s some rumination on a couple new electric car vs [&hellip
April 8th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
Update: the 2013 MPGe rating for the Leaf is actually 116 (not 99), so the calculations below are actually heavily [&hellip
April 7th, 2013 | by Zachary Shahan
Update: the 2013 MPGe rating for the Leaf is actually 116 (not 99), so the calculations below are actually heavily [&hellip
