# $8k electric Del Sol

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/8k-electric-del-sol/262216
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive
**Created:** [January 9, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/8k-electric-del-sol/262216 "2012-01-09T11:11:23Z")
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### Author: ![indy440](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@indy440](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/indy440)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/8k-electric-del-sol/262216/12 "2012-01-09T11:54:29Z")

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> [@Stimulus Payment Schedule - check yours](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stimulus-payment-schedule-check-yours/46338/155):
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> Lets assume 15 miles total each day.
> 
> years worth of driving to work: 5 days a week, 52 weeks. 260days a year.
> 
> 3900 miles a year. (I envy you BTW)
> 
> Electric Sol:  
> $8000 investment. No fuel charges.
> 
> Dump truck with a big block (5mpg):  
> $2500 for the turd dump truck. 780 gallons of fuel consumed or $2808 in fuel charges. $5308 total investment.
> 
> Moral of the story, you could drive a dump truck to work everyday for a year and save $2692 doing so instead of buying that DelSol.
> 
> :rofl

not including the $.15 per Kwh to charge the batteries…

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