The only problem with cost is that charging stations are starting to get as expensive as actual gas. I made a long trip this past week and had to pay an exorbitant amount just to travel for a few hours. I think it cost me $62 to travel 580 miles round trip, which is ridiculous (I was charged something like $.60 per KWh at stations and my car gets about 3.7 miles/KWh with the A/C on, the first 250 miles were on a home charge, which cost $.18/KWh). The stations used to be roughly $.40/KWh, but gods did they jack the prices up recently.
To put that into perspective, my old Prius would’ve gotten 48mpg. With gas being roughly at $3.75/gallon this weekend, it would’ve cost less ($45) to have driven the Prius. We don’t have it anymore though.
Still better than a gas vehicle, but these fucking charging stations are catching on and trying to eat us alive now.
That’s legitimately terrifying.