Lifecycle Cost: BEV vs. ICEV — Pickup Truck Edition

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 00:00:59 +0000

My recent article on the lifecycle cost of BEVs vs ICEVs was well received, so I thought I’d write another one, this time looking at trucks now that many OEMs are producing them — or are about to. A lifecycle cost analysis captures the full financial impact of BEVs across the vehicle’s entire lifetime for […]

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Gas Cars Are Embarrassingly Uncompetitive — Lifecycle Cost Analysis

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 03:30:24 +0000

CleanTechnica has published many excellent 5-year total cost of ownership (TCO) articles comparing battery electric vehicles (BEVs) against similar internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs). A 5-year timeframe is the norm for this type of analysis since many people flip their vehicles at this point. Invariably, BEVs prove to be cheaper than comparable ICEVs in these […]

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Plug-In Vehicle Sales Up To 3.1% In UK, 6.3% In December — But Look Around The Corner

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 04:13:11 +0000

The United Kingdom (not so united these days, but that’s another story) is becoming a hot electric vehicle market, but it gets very little attention in the EV world. I’m going to postulate that’s because people drive on the wrong side of the road there. (Just sayin’.)

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Bank of America Merrill Lynch: UK Tesla Model 3 & Other EV 3-Year Total Cost of Ownership Analysis Shows EVs Much Cheaper than Fossil Competitors

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2019 15:01:01 +0000

We’ve published numerous analyses of our own on the total cost of ownership of the Tesla Model 3 and Volkswagen ID.3 compared to top gasoline competitors. However, if you don’t trust research from CleanTechnica, perhaps you’ll find the work of a major international financial firm more palatable. A recently published report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) dove into this topic for the

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Tesla Model 3 vs. Honda Accord — Comparable 5 Year Cost to Own

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:58:40 +0000

I published an analysis the other day showing the Tesla Model 3 undercutting the Toyota Camry on a 5 year cost of ownership forecast. The plan for a while has been to update these cost of ownership comparisons since prices, tax credits, and other matters have changed in the past several months. I honestly did not expect the Model 3 to come out on top after all of the changes, but it clearly did so in the comparison with the Camry. With that comparison in mind, it’s pretty certain where a similar 5 year cost of ownership comparison with the Honda Accord is going to go

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Confusing Honda Accord & Toyota Camry Purchases … Tesla Model 3 vs. Mercedes C-Class — #CleanTechnica Top 20

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 03:23:26 +0000

It’s time for another roundup of the 20 most popular stories of the week. As proof of the fact that you don’t even need “Tesla” in the headline to have a Tesla story go viral, the top story of the week was about the Honda Accord & Toyota Camry while silently being about the Tesla Model 3. The second most popular story compared the Model 3 to two top sellers on the other end of its gradient of competitors, the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and Audi

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Tesla Should Get Into Financing Cars

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 05:03:06 +0000

Here on CleanTechnica, we’ve had a number of stories showing how much cheaper, in total, owning a Tesla can be compared to common gas-powered economy cars. While the purchase price of cars like the Toyota Camry and Honda Accord are a lot lower than a basic Model 3, the costs of ICE (internal combustion engine) maintenance and fuel often end up adding up to more than what the Model 3 would have cost. Despite this, people keep buying the “cheaper” cars

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