Eric, you need to read for meaning to understand. Here is what I wrote. It's not changing the subject. It was continuing the topic by analyzing the cost you gave. For ease of reference, here it is again. It shows your 1.5c per km is false.
<<If your car does 500,000 km between battery swaps, that will be about $7,500 at 1.5c per km. I don't believe the whole car cost only $7,500 or that the electricity is free [it might be until Teslaa goes bust and the promise of free electricity is falsified]>>
Your car will probably NOT do 500,000 km between battery swaps. So the cost is more likely to be 200,000 x 1.5c = $3000. Just the battery is a lot more than that. So 'free' electricity doesn't make it cheap motoring. The other costs are the important ones.
Yes, the electricity might cost you only 1.5c per km, but electric cars cost money. It's silly to pretend there is no capital cost, depreciation, battery replacement. The reason Tesla offers free electricity is because the car is so hideously expensive and so is the battery. The electricity cost is relatively small.
Why do you think everyone hasn't bought a Tesla or some other electric car? Cost is why.
At $30 a barrel, diesel and petrol are getting a new lease on life, as happened back in 1986 when my alternative fuel and electric car ideas became uneconomic.
Wishing doesn't make things so.
<My electron cost vs your petrol, pure and simple..> There is more to it than that Eric. Tesla gives free electricity, petrol pumps don't. Your simplistic idea is not how economics work. Buyers of cars are capable of thinking more carefully than "Well, gee, free electricity vs $2 a litre, I guess I better get one of them thar free cars". They will then get sticker shock and take another look at the cheap petrol powered option.
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