Why didn’t the Tesla use the supercharger network, it would have cut its costs in half. That’s the point of having a Tesla.
If you bothered to search and watch the video, you would see it’s based on how far a group of EV’s can travel, before the battery ran out, rather than conveniently stopping at a Supercharger and hoping youd paid the £9.99 subscription. At the same time the camera car, an Audi RSQ8 performance (petrol), was monitored on how far it could travel and a what cost.
The most compareable EV to the RSQ8 was BYD’s Sealion, which when calculated, the Audi would have been cheaper to run over the distance the BYD covered.
The Kia EV3 went the longest range at 330 miles. When calculated what the RSQ8 performance would have cost to run over the same distance, it was a mere £20 more. The EV3 and RSQ8 are like chalk and cheese, if you were to compare them to each other. There is no right or wrong answer here, but to which car you would choose between them, depends if you want an A to B car or a real drivers cars. For me it would be the latter!
I suggest you watch the video…
Yes I drive a PHEV, but in reality it’s the worst of both worlds and my own 220d Gran Coupe is cheaper to run overall. Yes it takes my daughter to and from school quite cheaply, as it’s charged on a granny charger overnight however, on a run it’s ecpensive, which kind of defeats the object to a certain extent. As for an EV, I simply don’t want one yet anyway. Unlike most, I do alot of longer distance miles and do not want to stop and charge, at prices as, if not more expensive than filling a ICE. Then there is the route I drive, with only one conveniently located charger, that if not working, quite frankly puts me in the shit. I have been told by certain people on this forum, I should take a different route, even if it takes me an hour longer to get home. Why should I, when I have drove the same route for 20yrs?
Many on here love nothing more than callinfg me anti EV and whatever else comes with it. I say, how can I be anti EV, when I have gone through great efforts as a sparky, helping members with their charger queries. How can I be anti EV, when I told my own mother to get one, for what she does it’s perfect. However, when driving it, there may not be the rumble of an engine heard, but the bloody drone from the tyres and wind noise is only further exaggerated, then theres the sea sickness feeling from regen breaking, not even my mum can have regen higher than level 1. So no thank you, but if you want one, cus you think they are the best thing since sliced bread, then be my guest!