Matt Palmer@womble@infosec.exchange
@PaulWay@aus.social your fuel consumption numbers are too generous. The dinky little 4.5T truck I drive for work is closer to 5km/L (on a ~300km round trip, it typically uses 55-60L). From https://fleethvnews.com.au/every-electric-truck-model-available-in-australia-right-now/, it looks like your km/kw is generous, too; I'm getting numbers closer to 2.5km/kwh. Based on that article, though, it looks like a 300km round trip is marginal at best for an EV light truck in Australia at the moment, sadly.
PaulWay@PaulWay@aus.social
@womble@infosec.exchange I fed your numbers into my spreadsheet and to repay the $40K expenditure for the new EV takes 2 years 8 months.
Remember, this is not throwing away the old vehicle. This is selling the old perfectly good vehicle. The prices I saw on trucksales.com.au for used 4.5T trucks were in the $120K to $200K range depending on phase of moon, number of hairs on the owners head and number of demerit points on the driver's license. It didn't seem to depend on kilometres driven or on age. I don't know what a new truck costs, so I'm just guessing on $200K - if there's a more accurate figure I can feed that into my spreadsheet.