THE SCENARIO
This post is going to be about the choice to buy an electric versus an internal-combustion vehicle. However, it's not going to cover environmental and other 'qualitative' considerations, and is going to make some broad-stroke assumptions to keep the problem relatively simple. And while the purchase-price numbers are roughly accurate as of today, the details of any given automobile-purchase transaction
will be different for each buyer based on their negotiating skill, where and from whom they buy their vehicle, the incentives available to the seller (and the urgency of the sale to the seller), and many other factors.
For simplicity, I'm going to make the following assumptions:
- The cars will be purchasable for MSRP with no taxes, title, fees, or other costs, and that no governmental incen... Read more...
