"EV naysayers are getting smaller in numbers"

[CKN]

Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Originally Posted By: CKN
However-there was someone on another thread who stated he was leasing a BMW i3 for a 105.00 a month.

here is an example-
https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/lease-a-b...ed-for-may/1115


He assumed the lease from a BMW employee. So the low payment was because of the steep employee discount they receive on leases.



You can still pretty much lease a Chevy Bolt for less than $300/month nation-wide. If your car doesn't get 30mpg-at the average annual amount of miles per year-it comes real close to making sense. Especially if one can charge at work.

 

[MCompact]

Originally Posted By: SatinSilver
Originally Posted By: CKN
However-there was someone on another thread who stated he was leasing a BMW i3 for a 105.00 a month.

here is an example-
https://forum.leasehackr.com/t/lease-a-b...ed-for-may/1115


He assumed the lease from a BMW employee. So the low payment was because of the steep employee discount they receive on leases.


That was me; only 5 months left, unfortunately...

 

[wemay]

Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies
Start with: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.cfm?page=electricity_in_the_united_states

Also see:
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
https://www.iso-ne.com/about/key-stats/resource-mix
https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=NY
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/energyoffice/electricity-overview
http://www.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_system_power.html

And in this UCS tool, put in east coast 02130, west coast 90210, and then a Colorado zip code 80110 to see that the middle of the country burns a lot of coal but the east AND west coasts burn very little:
https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/ev-emissions-tool

Its really easy to dig up these documents by using the google terms, for example,
U.S. electricity production coal natural gas
and substitute in a state name for the U.S. text to get various regions, or put in New England for a group out east.

Also, a key fact to remember is that natural gas has more hydrogen in it, and therefore doesn't dump as much CO2 in the atmosphere as coal which has less hydrogen in it, so its carbon footprint is less.


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