EV vs Gasoline: Total Cost of Ownership Race

Electrifying transport is often sold on emissions, but for most buyers the deciding number is the wallet: does the electric vehicle's lower running cost pay back its higher purchase price? This simulator drives an EV and a gasoline car down the same road for fifteen simulated years, growing a cost tower behind each one from real inputs — mileage, energy prices, purchase premium and maintenance savings — and marks the exact year the EV's total cost of ownership drops below the gasoline car's. Push electricity prices up or gasoline prices down and watch the break-even year move, or vanish entirely.