Electric Vehicles’ Low Cost Per Mile

A reader sent me this piece on the low cost per mile of driving electric vehicles. 

Not to sound ungrateful, but I point out that EVs’ cost per mile is a fairly uninteresting statistic. It’s already ridiculously low; saving a bit more is only a tiny incentive. 

The only really interesting thing for the thoughtful EV driver in the U.S. is charging without causing more coal to be burned. That means either charging them during the day, when incremental loads on the grid are generally met with natural gas, or, better, it means using renewable energy.  My friend Paul Scott, co-founder of Plug-In America, has been driving EVs since the late 1990s (originally a Toyota Rav 4 Electric, now a Nissan LEAF) and has a sizeable PV array on his roof.  He hasn’t bought a drop of gasoline in over 15 years, and he’s almost entirely off the grid.