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Originally Posted by fiver
The comparisons I've seen for cost per mile indicated the break-even point for gas vs. electricity was $1/gallon, so anytime gas costs more than that, driving on electricity saves you money. Going from memory here, apologies for that.
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I don't know if that's correct or incorrect, but I'm positive that the break even point also depends on the local cost of electricity. Some places in the USA pay 3 times as much for electricity than other places. I pay a little over 6 cents per kWH. That's on the cheap end. So maybe that means my break-even point is $1 per gallon. But it means that somebody on the East Coast paying 18 cents has a break-even point of $3 per gallon. Big difference.
(That 18 cent figure is a guess based on some older numbers. I did find that wind power costs as much as 30 cents per kWH to generate, just as interesting info).