With high gas prices, what do you really save with an electric vehicle? Hint: It's not just dollars.
, I entered hypothetical numbers assuming 30 miles per day, 0.157 avg. cost per kilowatt hour, and gas costs of $4.50 per gallon. The savings were around $2000 per year. I can share my own household budget experience too. We currently have 3 cars in our household, and I commute about 35 miles one way for work. Before purchasing an EV in 2021, I budgeted around $600 per month for fuel costs. After that purchase, I slashed that budget to $300 month. I have not needed an oil change in over a year.
For me, savings are not just about “dollars and cents.” We also save our climate system. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , greenhouse gases continue to increase at a rapid pace. The NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index is a low uncertainty metric that included high-quality global data. According to the NOAA, “The AGGI in 2021 was 1.49, which means that we’ve turned up the warming influence from greenhouse gases by 49% since 1990.
With two teenage kids, the savings from transitioning to EVs is like an investment in their future well-being on the habitable planet we know of.Module comes into view of the Moon before Astronatus Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. leave in the Lunar Module, Eagle, to become the first men to walk on the Moon's surface. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon mission is celebrated July 20, 1999.
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