"Your claims about depreciation are mostly scare-mongering "
All those reports of excessive depreciation of EVs' must be the mother of all hoaxes, then:
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"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:
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