It will shock you to find out that I have decided not to buy the Lexus SC two door coupe for $66,805. In fact, I can’t believe this little 2-seater bubble shaped trophy car gets only 16 miles to the gallon and yet it costs so much.
If I didn’t already have a great car, I’d take that $66k and buy one of these wacky Aptera electric cars. The Aptera looks like a jet that’s had it’s wings clipped off. It’s built locally here in Southern California and it happens to get pretty good gas mileage. The MSRP is less than half the Lexus so with the leftover money I’d buy enough PV from affordable-solar.com to wipe out both my entire monthly electric bill at home AND my auto’s fuel bill… and that’s wipe them out forever (or at least until the 25 year warranty runs out on the panels). That is quite a value proposition.
Let’s see…
$66k on a clown-car shaped Lexus plus $4000 per year at the pump…
OR
$66k on a jet-shaped electric car PLUS free electricity at home for the next 25 years?
With the Aptera, I’ll never have to stop and get a fill up of gasoline again. I’ll plug it in at night and forget about it. The net present value of my gasoline savings will be enormous ($18k over just the next 5 years). If I can make the Aptera car last 9 years then it will pay for itself entirely from just the savings in gasoline. I wonder what the Lexus will be worth 9 years from now?
