Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2021

Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025. 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.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He's an actual engineer, with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford. Tesla, one of the smartest things the company did was to recognize early on that if electric cars were to be accepted as viable substitutes for cars with engines, they couldn't be limited to low-range city-only [driving]. John, welcome to the podcast.

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