Letters to the Editor: Electric vehicles aren’t expensive when you consider external costs

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EV price comparisons that ignore external costs — like health and climate impacts — undervalue their true value, with traditional metrics essentially pricing human life at zero.

Used Tesla Model 3s priced at $20,000 outperform new gas vehicles costing double, suggesting the used EV market offers overlooked affordability advantages.

Journalists covering EVs should employ attribution science to account for previously uncounted external costs in traditional price comparisons.

To the editor : I want to raise an issue with one thing the author wrote: “A new [electric vehicle] costs about $8,000 more on average than a gas car, according to Kelley Blue Book” ( “The great EV retreat of