so one electric car is fast? i could also say that dodge miradas are fast, and i can provide 3 or 4 examples of miradas that will stomp 95% of the new cars sold in the world...

that electric mustang is 80,000 dollars plus the cost of the mustang (25,000ish), it has a lower top speed than my stratus, and sounds like it has similar stated 0-60 to the mirada (the mirada cost around 7,000 with parts). mind you, those performance numbers are mentioned, ive never seen an electric car run anywhere near that fast, but im sure that theyre fairly accurate. it will also only go 100-125 miles when "conservatively driven", and im guessing that doesnt include many 130mpg romps or many digs from 0-60 in 4 seconds. however, for the discussion, ill use their performance and "fuel cost" numbers.

it costs "around 2 cents per mile" and has a range of 100-125 miles. that means that you can drive up to 62.5 miles away with the realistic hopes of getting home, unless youre always driving somewhere that has plugs in the parking lot, assuming that it uses a standard connection.

say that you have a 50 mile one way commute, which i did in the stratus for about 3 years. 100 miles a day at the 25mpg that the stratus averages...means that i use 4 gallons of gas for my work commute...the current price here is around 3 bucks a gallon, so i would spend about 12 dollars a day in gas to go 100 miles..thats 12 cents a mile. in a car that doesnt get all that good of mileage.

the cost of the 300EV is around 104,000 (80,000 mod cost + 24,000 ford cost), and the cost of my stratus was about 25,000. that is around an 80,000 dollar difference with tax, title, other stuff...

so my annual fuel costs if i didnt drive anywhere else, and i went to work for the required amount of time under most salary contracts (2080 hours, divided by 8 hour days is 260 days) would be 12 dollars a day times 260 days, or 3120 USD.

that mustang making the same trip, the same number of times, but only paying 2 cents per mile, would be spending 2 dollars a day, or 520 dollars per year...saving you 2600 a year in gas costs.

to absorb the price difference of buying the car based on fuel economy, you would have to drive that mustang "conservatively" to work for the next THIRTY YEARS. (104,000-25,000=79,000 79,000/2600=30.38 years)

they express the "fuel cost" as being 2 cents a mile where cars that arent practically make believe are expressed in MPG. everyone thinks "wow, 2 cents per mile is cheap", but for a car that gets 30mpg at 3 bucks a gallon, its only spending 10 cents a mile, and at that rate, it will take forever to absorb the price difference in the two vehicles.

honestly, who wants to drive a car for 30 years? who really thinks that any ford product will last 30 years?

lets talk about something breaking. just a trip to the local...ummm...electric auto repair shop? i dont know of any of those, and even if i did, i bet that its not cheap. i bet that the 75 bucks and hour price of the dealership looks like a deal compared to what these super specialized E-car mechanics charge, not to mention the rare parts.

so, a very very expensive car that is slower than my stratus and about even in the 0-60 with my mirada (if those numbers are accurate), that will likely cost a fortune to repair and it has to last 30 years to BREAK EVEN with my stratus rt based on fuel costs and purcahse price...

doesnt sound like a great deal to me. its alot like driving 2 hours to get gas for 5 cents a gallon less than the shop2 miles away.