Welcome to another Tesla Tuesday!
While chatting with a coworker from California about gas and electricity costs in his area, it got me thinking about the ratio between those two costs for various cities in the US. I set AI off to research these costs for the top 25 cities plus a couple bonus cities and here is the result. I baked the results into a bit of a calculator so you can punch in your own mpg and EV efficiency estimates (but if you don’t have an EV, note that 250 wh/mi is average for a Tesla.)
You can see that Seattle is a sweet spot. We have very expensive gas and very cheap electricity. I’ve been thinking a lot about this with our pending move to Minnesota. Will our next car be an EV? I’ll have to rerun the numbers to see if we’ll save money over the life of the vehicle like we have with our current Tesla, but honestly, we’ve come to love all the features of that car so much that I think it would be hard to buy something else. The flip side is that driving a Tesla feels like more of a “statement” in the midwest than it is here and I don’t know how much I love that. Knock on wood we have plenty of time to think about this as our current Tesla is still going strong.
Note that there is a lot more that goes into “how much would an EV cost/save” than just the cost of gas and electricity but this is a major piece of it.
I also turned this into a map using 20mpg as the gas efficiency (which is what my truck gets) and 250 wh/mi for the EV efficiency. Click on the map for a larger view.
