I hope you found something fun while you were out shopping.
I don't have an electric car, nor do I know anyone who does yet. I have wondered in the grand scheme of things what the real cost difference is. I have wondered how much it cost on the power bill to recharge them. I don't go very far myself, maybe to Mom's is the furthest and I am not sure exactly how far that is, maybe 15 to 18 miles. That also means, since I have a Honda, that I only put gas in about once a month.
My Mother is 88 and was widowed a couple of years ago when my stepdad passed. She did taxes year before last because some of his income and the such was still there to be counted, but her tax man told her she didn't need to file anything this year. She had already been going through receipts and the such. I'm sure it is a load off of her not to have to worry about that now.
My taxes are not hard, but I now do them online. All my income is from one place and all the taxes go through that too, so no receipt saving. I got back $658.00. Not a fortune, but still something. Every little bit comes in handy sooner or later.
I think my taxes will be much easier to do next year. I think I've been getting myself unusually worried about things that are not that important.
The EV has been really wonderful so far. As a cost comparison, my EV (aka Manju) gets around 3 miles a kilowatt hour. It seems like I am paying about 11 cents a kilowatt hour but the bill is nearly undecipherable to me. So a 30-mile trip should cost about $1.10 if I use a home charger. Compared with my SUV (aka Thurstin Pigglesworth the third) a 30-mile trip should take around a gallon and a half of fuel, so somewhere around $6.75.
Manju is really a pleasure to drive and is much faster, smoother, and less noisy compared with Mr. Piggles. It is also arguably the fastest vehicle that I've owned because at any moment there is plenty of power without having to downshift to get into the power band of a gas-powered engine.
At a future point, I would like to get some solar panels and do the home charging with them. Between the EV and a heat pump, I will be mostly carbon neutral. Just a guess based on the increasing scarcity of fossil fuel, I'm expecting the price of everything to go up so not caring so much about the price of gas is nice.