This is a common mistake gas car owners make when thinking about EVs. Any EV owner will tell you this is nonsense. You charge at home. Charging stations cost a lot to build and they charge you as much as they can get away with. Plus there is little competition so you get what you get. Regular EV drivers avoid using them as much as possible. To get an idea of the rate difference, I pay .32/KWH at home and the local charging station is .42 to .54/KWH plus .99 per charge. Plus most chargers are in parking garages so you need to pay for parking plus charging. That often works out to double what you'd pay at home.
If this was an accurate comparison, he would have started fully charged from home making the cost of the EV's fuel less than the gas car.
I don't know of any electric car that can't be charged at home. Here in the US they all come with a 120v charge cable, which is the minimum you'd need. Yes, it would take a long time to fully charge most cars on 120v, but how often do you drive 220 miles and need to drive another 220 miles again the next day? Most people drive around 20-40 miles a day. And 20-40 miles is a few hours on a common 120v/15 amp circuit.
And there is no mention of tune ups, oil changes, smog inspections, etc. A recent study from Canada showed owning an EV was 37% cheaper than a comparable gas car.
https://www.greencars.com/expert-insights/how-much-cheaper-is-it-to-drive-electric
In reality, the problem with EV's and petrol cars is money, which is cheaper to run, buy. environmentally neither is better, they both used minerals etc in the process to make and while Ev's have zero emissions its the actual chemical make up of the components that makes them on par with Co2 emissions with a petrol car,
The clip I put up is a dead set comparison of both cars full and what they pay for an actual trip with identical starting points, location and conditions, A testament to this comparison is they also use an EV and petrol car in both test's from the same manufacturer and then used 2 manfacturers in the form of BMW and Peugeot,,
to charge at home and start the test with cheaper electricity would hinder the test and favour the EV, so the same can be said for a petrol car filling on test day at a 10-12cents cheaper fuel for the day, either way the test performed in the vid is the best comparison you'll find, its fair and honest without the pettiness of...oh I can charge at home or this gas station is cheaper or maybe I drive deisle so I get better economy blah blah so it cost me less etc etc we can go on all day about the pros n cons.
FACTS.... I love the EV and its promise of cleanliness and the unrivaled power n torque from get go "Sheesh" I also love the throng and feel of a high powered internal combustion engine....who didnt love V8's, Turbo'd 6's and fast fours n rotaries, they all had their fans and still do!
Its just this powering issue..we know we gotta stop the use of fossil fuels but at the moment its the 1% in the world that prohibit the good and proper so they can feed their greed.
an example is the guy who made the car that ran on water...Pfffft it didnt , it ran off a small rodial device that developed electrity, the car was actually electric. it was a circular ring of magnets and coils that when started , it didnt stop, it was the throw of one magnet to the other that gave momentum to the next and it just kept turning, the guy had found a way to make big power from it....the project was bought out for an undisclosed sum and the poor guy was never to be seen or heard of again! big money squandering the efforts to a cleaner greener world...I even stated earlier, Nikolai tesla had a Model T ford that ran on electricity in1900 and something?? took it JP morgan himself and was told if you cant put a meter on it I wont fund it and dont want it. This was happening over 100 yrs ago and its still happening today!
