justoffal
Senator
It has a promised range of 80 miles per charge so I would have to find a quick charging station out near where I work to make it feasible. There is one nearby BTW.......However As large and wealthy as my employers are and as green as they pretend to be they still won't agree to install charging stations at the campus. But I digress.
So I took the dealer's word for the gas equivalent numbers.... 102 mpg they say is the cost conversion. That's probably about correct I guess.... too lazy to write out the math right now but I'm guessing they have their stuff in order.
Currently I drive a 2000 dodge stratus back and forth. I spend roughly 100 bucks a month on up keep .... brakes, bearings, front end stuff...... the occasionally under the hood fix..... buy one set of tires about every 8 months.... It gets about 32 mpg. Not bad.
The leaf even with the tax break comes it at about $450.00 bucks a month with a thousand down.
My schedule has me working 43 out of 56 days in an 8 week rotation. at $3.75 per gallon I spend roughly 100/32 *3.75 per day or roughly 12 bucks. 12 bucks multiplied by 43 is 516 dollars for gas every eight weeks. Now then.... if the conversion equivalent is 102 mpg then my total savings is equal to 516- ( 516 * (32/102) ) or 516-161.8 ....... or about 354 bucks every two months.... right now I have no payment but I do spend regularly on maintenance. Also my excise tax bill is very low and so is my auto coverage.
The 354 bucks doesn't even make one monthly payment stretched out over two months add to that increased excise fees, higher insurance and a net loss out of pocket of approximately ( 900-354 ) $546.00 every 8 weeks and I have little to no incentive to make such a move.
I'm not sure how they're going to sell these things but the salesman was pretty flustered when I did the numbers for him.
JO
So I took the dealer's word for the gas equivalent numbers.... 102 mpg they say is the cost conversion. That's probably about correct I guess.... too lazy to write out the math right now but I'm guessing they have their stuff in order.
Currently I drive a 2000 dodge stratus back and forth. I spend roughly 100 bucks a month on up keep .... brakes, bearings, front end stuff...... the occasionally under the hood fix..... buy one set of tires about every 8 months.... It gets about 32 mpg. Not bad.
The leaf even with the tax break comes it at about $450.00 bucks a month with a thousand down.
My schedule has me working 43 out of 56 days in an 8 week rotation. at $3.75 per gallon I spend roughly 100/32 *3.75 per day or roughly 12 bucks. 12 bucks multiplied by 43 is 516 dollars for gas every eight weeks. Now then.... if the conversion equivalent is 102 mpg then my total savings is equal to 516- ( 516 * (32/102) ) or 516-161.8 ....... or about 354 bucks every two months.... right now I have no payment but I do spend regularly on maintenance. Also my excise tax bill is very low and so is my auto coverage.
The 354 bucks doesn't even make one monthly payment stretched out over two months add to that increased excise fees, higher insurance and a net loss out of pocket of approximately ( 900-354 ) $546.00 every 8 weeks and I have little to no incentive to make such a move.
I'm not sure how they're going to sell these things but the salesman was pretty flustered when I did the numbers for him.
JO