How much does an electric car cost?

Question

what is the average cost?

Answer 1

The Honda Hybrid starts at $18500 and supposed to give competition to the Toyota Prius.

Answer 2

I don't know how to average a set of cars that run from $11,000 to $110,000.

But this is a link to the electric car now available.

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Answer 3

The Tesla 2009MY Roadster base price: $109,000

# Availability approximately 12 months

# $5000 refundable reservation fee starts the process and locks in price*

# Additional $55,000 to lock in a production slot and delivery timeframe.

# Exterior/interior choices, options and balance due 3 months prior to production of your Roadster

Answer 4

Wouldn't the world be so much easier if everyone had an electric car? LOL

OMG They are sompose to be really expensive. They are new technology and companies want people to pay for Gas, not charge their cars. You know?

They are lots of money though. Maybe 110,000 dollars for a really good one?

Answer 5

There's such a wide range of electric cars and prices that an average won't tell you much.  See the link below for a summary.

Answer 6

It depends.  Like gas-powered cars, electrics come in varying price ranges. Overall the price range is from about $12,000 to over $100,000

In general, the average is about the same as gasoline-powered cars.  Maybe a bit more because electrics are still produced in limited quantity so overhead costs are higher. They are far cheaper to operate,though. electricity is cheaper than gas--and typically n electric needs only half as much power because they are just about twice as efficient, so there's less energy lost in mechanical inefficiencies (internal combustion engines are only about 30-40% efficient--the rest is wasted).

BTW--you're going to hear comments from people that either "electric dcars aren't feasible and the technology is years or decades away). I really don't know where these people get this, since there are models on the market now that work as well--and some ways better--than gas-powered vehicles.

Or that "electrics are dinky little cars" (a quote from some nitwit.  In fact, top-end electrics like the Tesla outperform any gas-poeered car n the road.  Its one of the pricey models--$92-110,000. That's because it's a high-end sports car designed to compete with Porsche, Ferrari, etc. Goes 125 mph and 0 to 60 in 3.5 second ( that's 3.5 seconds--it's not a typo).

For the rest of us, the problem is finding electric cars to buy.  But they are there, and if you can find one and are willing to go on a waiting list for a few months, you can get a good one for no more than you will pay for a comparable gs-powered vehicle.

Oh--they are all "plug-ins."  I still haven't figured out why the auto companies claim this is a big technology problem. Especially when custom shops all over the country are making money converting hybrids to plug-in status even while the car companies say they can't build them that way in the first place.