Gde trailer,
You must have overlooked my post in regards to "OUR" situation for our work commuter EV. Others may differ with their findings. A great % of OUR ELECTRIC SAVINGS is the fact, we are very privledge to CHARGE VEHICLE AT WORK at NO COST to us. Not everyone can do this. We are fortunate and never know if will change.
Again, we have a special Lease (no option to buy, nor did I want to buy a changing technology). UNLIMITED milage lease, Maintance is included as well as the collision portion of the insurance. (I think vehicle is treated like a corporate lease plan). I know this is very rare and un heard of by most folks. We were sorta lucky in being able to find and get on board with the lease very few dealers in the US could offer, in which only a few states were allocated, long waiting list etc. We have 1 of 1,100 vehicles produced during the 2013/2014 model years..aka COMPLIANCE vehicle.
Our Ice vehicle service performed by dealership and reflect their prices.(probably getting hosed as you say).service based on the computer maintance minder indicator on dash..avererage intervals. (Wish I could find a suitable manufacture acceptable tranny fluid...even pep boys turned us away to go to dealer because special tranny fluid required)
But the maintance cost savings is just an extra bonus. Yes, brakes are brakes and will wear, this vehicle has significant reduced wear due to what is called regenerative braking. (Every time foot is released from accelerator, the resistance of motor regenerating energy to put back into the battery pack and depending what mode my vehicle set at, can be aggressive ir mild) this slows vehicle down quite often enough that less required from brake pedal. My diesel truck has the turbo exhaust brake and is a much similiar feel when hauling with load and braking down a steep grade. Brake wear is reduced tremendously. Besides all that...above.
Did I go about "estimating" what the EV portion of our bill is costing us? Maybe in future we will invest in a EVSE charge (wifi smart sytem) station that reports and data logs exact consumption, but for now we will use the Leviton L1 and L2 EVSE units provided to us.
Thank you for your angle on the subject matter, an EV (at this current time ??) might not work for you but for "OUR SITUATION" mention several post) :) it works for us.
It is certainly great to have the choices available to us in this day and age, now just a matter of having the means $$$. Everything comes at a price. :) LOL
