Electric Cars vs Gas Cars: Price, Pros & Cons

I compare electric cars and gas cars to figure out the pros and cons of buying and owning one from different angles like cost, price, efficiency, reliability, charging and fueling, environmental friendliness and more!

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[EforElectric]

Question of the Day: What type of car will you be getting next: electric, gas, hybrid?

[aaronbounds]

Yes, I got a Nissan Leaf used 9 months ago and the solar system just over 1 year ago so the energy needed for charging the car was not even factored into the solar system and the SolarCity solar system performs so well that running my electric car for the last 9 months has cost me absolutely nothing. There was one month where I had a $0. 06 electricity bill but that was some sort of fluke I think. Since then, even in the summer months running the air conditioner, I have not had any electricity bill.

[georgepelton]

Electric cars provide a far superior customer experience. Performance, convenience, utility, maintenance requirements all exceed what ICE or hybrid cars offer. I don't plan to buy any more ICE cars, except for antique cars, such as the Model T.

[kittykat]

Good info, but need more visuals, my attention span is like a hummingbird. 😀

[eng]

Where I live they cost alot and there isn't any discounts or incentives. They don't even promote them in local advertising.Some dealerships don't even Carry them because they can't service them.

[gillespelletier]

The environment cost is directly related to the size of the battery. So a 24 kwh battery has a way smaller environmental foot print than a 100 kwh one. So the 60k miles for a 100 kwh become less than 20k miles for the 24 kwh. Getting the right size battery for your everyday usage is way better than buying the biggest battery. And you will save a lot of money on the car's price.

[emberblack]

Im not sure about that 60k miles cap. Maybe only if its driving only on fully coal electricity. Process of making batteries does polllute a bit yes, but i wonder if extraction and transport of oil is also included in those studies. Lets not forget that oil is transported mainly by big tankers, which are one of the most polluting things out there.

[nycameleon]

price of gas is taxed to repair roads etc... once everyone goes electric, that tax will need to be moved to ev charging or registration fees, roads still need repairs. keep the comparison fair.

[isaacsac]

Also with the gas powered car you have to do the yearly smog test.

[jjj]

Alex, my auto insurance went down with my Model 3. Hartford Insurance does not write for Tesla vehicles, so my agent switched me to Chubb. Charging with the large battery is easy Treat it like an Iphone and charge each night. I live 5 miles from a Supercharger and have lots of public chargers, several of which are free, available here in Orlando, FL. Now if I could figure out a way to get the Model X and S owners to stop using the free destination chargers and stick to their free Superchargers!

[aaronbounds]

I would highly recommend installing solar panels on a house to anybody as the chance: it doesn't cost anything at all up front and your electricity bill goes to just the interconnection fee which in my area is $7. 99. Some areas it's as expensive as 20 or $30. The actual cost of electricity will go to zero and if you don't buy the system up front and have to finance it like I did they cost of financing per month on average is less than your electricity bill anyway.

[aaronbounds]

That there is a 1. 64 transmission type fluid change that needs to happen at 150000 miles in the Nissan Leaf. That's it for oil changing.

[rymtotheprime]

Mark my words, in 20 years, everyone will have a electric car, gas cars will be scarce and so will gas stations

[julie]

I picked up three things that you missed. First of all if you're going to have photo voltaic system at home and it's not going to cost anything for recharging, I assume that you know where I can get one of these systems for nothing. I want to know where this is. Second you missed the cost of having to replace 4 door handles at $1, 000 each on an electric car. The last thing you did not cover is how much coal it takes to power your electric car. Thank you for great videos I really enjoy them!

[philbear]

I use the cell phone analogy: it has a battery, so does your car, plug it in at home/garage. The gas and maintenance savings are insane, tens of thousands of dollars over the average car ownership in Canada or Europe. Where I live (BC Canada), the Tesla 3 will end up costing (over 10 years) as much as an average VW Golf, or Honda Civic. It is actually cheap.

[cbcdesign]

I have seem other channels stating that insurance for Teslas is very expensive simply because Teslas are expensive to repair.

[bendingmite]

hey isten bud a gas car is going to last a long time if you treat it with TLC

[discmaniastudios]

Stop saying things are more expensive because its "new". EVERYTHING is becoming more expensive.

[anthonyincandela]

Electric cars will have their own set of problems to people will have to switch back to gas.

[Samosayummyyay]

It depends. I own a Toyota Auris Hybrid 2014 myself and it uses a CVT. It's the smoothest driving car I've ever driven, including E-classes, 5-series, VW Golf MK7's with DSG's. I'm using to smooth AF driving and thus EVs are to my liking. However, my biggest concern are it's bugs. What if the car does a phantom drain? Range anxiety? Yes, concerns. I live in The Netherlands and cars are very expensive here. Just take the American price, multiplied by 2 and that's what we pay here for cars. Fuel costs a factor of 3-4x more here in The Netherlands than in America too. I even pay ~700 in tax per year for my Hybrid car! An EV is exempt of taxes (for now that is) and it is a lot cheaper for the distance traveled. During winter, driving 100km with elevation already becauses a struggle with an E-Golf or an Leaf. With my Hybrid car, I get ~58-60mpg with relaxed highway driving at ~80mph. An EV at that speed will get ~80mpg-E. Not much different at all, huh? :/ It's still a toss-up for me!