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We can debate until tomorrow morning the relevance of electrifying the entire car fleet of the planet. Do we have all the necessary resources? Will we eliminate all GHGs from the transport sector? Are we only going to reach the electrification targets that countries like Canada have set for themselves by 2035?
Where there is no doubt about the switch to electric cars is in the wallets of their owners… especially those in the eight countries mentioned in the graph above. These are the places on the planet where switching from gasoline to electric generates the greatest savings once on the road.
Obviously, it is difficult to compare the cost of a full tank of gas to that of a full electric charge, since the distance that a tank can cover varies greatly from one vehicle to another. In addition, you rarely really fill up: there are always a few liters of fuel or a few kilowatt hours of electricity in reserve.
This is why the comparison over a distance of 100 kilometers seems appropriate. This gives a better indication of the cost of using both types of propulsion, on a comparable vehicle. This is the exercise conducted by the British site Drive Electric. We also learn that Canada is one of the places in the world where going electric is the most affordable: it costs five times less to drive an electric vehicle, a difference that is even more pronounced in Quebec, where the price of electricity is 45% lower than the national average.
This helps to amortize the sometimes higher cost of an electric vehicle more quickly compared to a gas-powered vehicle of comparable format…
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