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Argonne study finds BEVs can have lowest scheduled maintenance costs, but highest cost of driving

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The study considers five different powertrains (internal combustion engine, hybrid-electric, plug-in hybrid-electric, fuel-cell-electric, and battery-electric) and 12 cost components (purchase cost, depreciation, financing, fuel, insurance, maintenance, repair, taxes, registration fees, tolls and parking, payload capacity and labor).

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DOE labs study on costs and benefits of new transportation technologies the most comprehensive to date

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They are newer to the road, so it was hard to know, for instance, their historic needs for maintenance over their operational life. The study finds, for example, that battery electric vehicles have maintenance costs 40% lower than ICE vehicles. Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025.

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XALT Energy, HED develop XBV telematics system for battery-electric powertrains

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As commercial vehicle manufacturers and fleet owners transition to battery-electric powertrains, they must manage a new set of mobility variables. —Chad Repp, Business Development Manager, Telematics, HED. —Chad Repp. XALT Energy, a part of Freudenberg Sealing Technologies, is a Midland, Mich.-based

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

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Now it's all of the commercial charging stations, and it's valuable because users can add photos of where the charging station actually is, comments on whether it may have been broken yesterday or oh, now it's been repaired. The cost of electricity, the cost of gasoline, how many miles, how much maintenance, etc. I'm into EVs too."

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Now it's all of the commercial charging stations, and it's valuable because users can add photos of where the charging station actually is, comments on whether it may have been broken yesterday or oh, now it's been repaired. The cost of electricity, the cost of gasoline, how many miles, how much maintenance, etc. I'm into EVs too."