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Nissan’s new LEAF EV was caught at a Tesla Supercharger in Canada (electrek.co)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

... 3.5kw per mile is not a unit that makes sense though???

wait. no. I'll look this up myself.

Okay. So. It's 3.5 miles per Kilowatt-HOUR

Where I live, we have municipal hydroelectric power.

Per Kilowatt-Hour or KwH, it costs around 17.44 cents. I'm going to round that up for a less-ideal-case-scenario to $0.18/KwH

$0.18 per 3.5 miles = $0.05143 per mile.

times 200 miles, that's $10.29

Filling my "tank" to drive 200 miles costing only a hair above ten bucks is pretty fucking great actually O_O

Of course this is assuming I'm charging at home.

Which ... I would be, of course!

I don't tend to go far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Was in a Bolt EUV for about 6 weeks while my wife’s Soul got the engine replaced (Kia paid for the rental). I ran the numbers and had a similar result as you. Very nearly bought one but the fast charging was abysmally slow and the cup holder was unusually narrow, couldn’t fit my water bottle that has fit in every other car before or since. Also, my car at the time was our long-distance hauler. Still strongly considering electric for when I replace it. Chevy’s new Equinox and Blazer EVs fixed my complaints and still have the physical buttons, but got rid of Apple CarPlay/Android Auto for a custom interface from Google.