Electric Cars Soon Will Cost Less Than Gas Cars, Research Suggests
1.  Gigantic longevity.  Electric Vehicles will likely run 1 million miles or more without requiring any significant repairs except a net battery pack.  Internal combustion engines develop all kinds of problems related to burning petroleum for energy.<p>2.  No gas charges.  For the $35k Tesla, if you get an invite from a current Tesla owner, you can get $1k off and a free lifetime supercharger usage.  Supposing you always use a super-charger and had no gas charges, on 200k miles you just saved $25k in gas charges...so your Tesla&#x27;s net cost came in under $10k!!  And it&#x27;s probably still got a long life ahead of it so would have far more resale value than an internal combustion vehicle with similar mileage.<p>So it makes a lot of sense for everyone really to buy a Tesla :-D!<p>That said if electric vehicles do last far longer than traditional vehicles you could reduce car sales by as much as 75%+...if you add in another trend of transportation-as-a-service via on-demand vehicles (e.g. Uber), that could reduce car sales by a similar amount.<p>Both combined could decimate the current car industry as we know it which has a lot of impacts on inputs e.g. mining for metals, etc. which go into car manufacturing.  It does make the world a lot more efficient.  If you look around the US, all you see are parking lots and cars everywhere sitting around (for like 97% of their life).