"Your claims about depreciation are mostly scare-mongering " All...

"Your claims about depreciation are mostly scare-mongering "

All those reports of excessive depreciation of EVs' must be the mother of all hoaxes, then:




"Your claims about insurance have been proven false by other owners in this thread."

Sorry, son; a sample of one (and with a declared vested interest at that), is not worth much more than a bucket of warm spit (not my words, the word's of my Statistics lecturer). Just like a ...uh... hypothetical EV owner driving several standard deviations further than any sort of average.

The outcome of a survey of an inordinately more representative sample (1000 respondents) says something rather different in the insurance costs of EVs vs conventional cars:

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/why-are-electric-cars-more-expensive-to-insure/


"Maintenance costs for EVs are provably less - we haven't even gone into that in the calculation."

As it happens, I had to change one of the light bulbs on my car today.
Cost $18.95 (SuperCheap Auto)

As a fun exercise I hopped onto Amazon to price bulbs for Teslas.

Multiples higher that $18.95: