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by rm_-rf_slash 3246 days ago
I fill up my Jeep about once a week. At an average cost of $25 to fill over the course of 52 weeks, that's $1,300.

Of course I don't have the added bonus of being able to charge from solar power, but at least that shows that the cost of electricity isn't prohibitive versus the cost of gasoline.
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cr0sh 3246 days ago
As a fellow Jeep owner (2004 TJ, {waves - lol}), I was sitting here wondering how you "fill up" a Jeep with only $25.00 (@ approx $2.00 per gallon - that'd be 12.5 gallons of gas per fill up). So I googled things - found this:

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/gas-tank-size-249444/

Of course, that whole discussion just throws a bunch of wrenches into the works; maybe you do have the 15 gallon tank on a older model (newer JKs have much larger tanks supposedly)? And apparently there's still more in the tank even once the light comes on (a few gallons reserve)?

I've never "buried the needle" on my Jeep yet, so I have no idea what size tank I have.

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rm_-rf_slash 3246 days ago
Yeah that's kinda what I meant. I don't burn a whole tank each week but I roughly fill it up weekly. Besides it was meant to be more a comparison of marginal rather tha absolute cost.

2015 Patriot (fist bump), if that makes a difference in the calculation.

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lettergram 3246 days ago
> Of course I don't have the added bonus of being able to charge from solar power

Ugh, you also don't have the added bonus with an EV to just fill up when necessary.

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