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No, at least, not here in Quebec anyway. Comparing apples to apples, it costs $0.08 cents of electricity to go the same range as $1.40 per litre of gas. Even a decent milage car at 11 Litres per 100 Kilometers, a driver saves over $3500 a year in energy costs.
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You forgot again that batteries need replacing, if you factor in that cost savings are much lower, if any
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Of course... but the question is, which has the lowest impact?
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Difficult to say producing electricity already isn't all that clean and rare earth mining is a nasty business.