10 October

Say you buy a new car, and drive it for 100,000 km. If it's a petrol or diesel car, the fuel over the lifetime of the car will cost you around $25,000. if you buy an EV, the electricity to drive 100,000 km will cost you less than $5000 over the lifetime of the car, and that's if you use grid power. The cost of that electricity can be close to zero if you charge it from home solar. You can see how massively you're ahead in dollar terms, going hybrid or electric. Tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of the car. And you'll be able to drive the EV for much longer than 100,000 km too, because there's nothing much mechanically that can go wrong with them. Some Teslas for example have done 800,000 km on the same motors and battery.