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The Clark Howard Podcast

12.26.19 Compelling electric vehicles; Save $1000 challenge for 2020

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Coming next year: the electric Ford Mustang SUV - faster than any Mustang muscle car before. Electric vehicles will get steadily cheaper with longer range. The baseline Mustang SUV will cost what any average SUV costs in the U.S. - around $36K. In the next few years, hundreds of electric vehicles will be introduced. They cost almost nothing to operate and maintain, They typical electric vehicle will get the equivalent of 120 miles per gallon. In TN, VW will be introducing a large variety of electric vehicles. The cost of owning and operating a vehicle will collapse with electric cars. Warning: Electric vehicles are much faster than what we're used to driving. Tesla has developed tech to allow parents to suppress horsepower to protect young drivers. Hopefully other car makers will do the same. A decade out it will be routine to buy electric vehicles because they'll be so much cheaper. Most people could come up with an extra grand a year by taking the time to go through their expenses and make cuts, capturing the money we burn without intending to. This is easier today because we have so many tech and subscription services. Start thinking about the $1000 challenge. Many could save hundreds a year just by changing their cell phone plan. There's virtually no one who can't generate hundreds in savings by reviewing how they watch video content. Look a what you're subscribed to. Are you using it? Gyms, video streaming services - go over expenses. Grocery shopping is an area where you can save. Think through what you spend, how you spend, where you bank. Go through checking and credit card statements and look where your money is going. Create a checklist of what you can do to save $1k in 2020. You CAN do it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the Clark Howard Show where it's about you being

0:10.2

empowered with knowledge so you can keep more of what you make.

0:14.8

Speaking of which, coming up later, I've got a thousand dollar challenge for you.

0:19.8

We're going to talk about how you can have a thousand dollars materialized in your life

0:27.6

in 2020.

0:30.0

I am so fascinated by the new Ford Mustang.

0:37.6

If you're not aware, coming next year is an electric Mustang.

0:45.4

And you look at the pictures and it so fits with the historical picture of the Mustang,

0:52.1

but it's an SUV and it's all electric and lightning fast faster than any Mustang muscle

1:00.5

car there's ever been.

1:04.2

And this is something that is a clear trend we're headed to electric vehicles and they're

1:14.4

going to get steadily cheaper.

1:17.2

The range is going to get longer and the Mustang is going to cost net for the baseline when

1:26.4

the SUV just a hair above mid-30s right at what the average SUV costs in the United States.

1:36.6

But that's just the beginning because we're going to have hundreds of electric vehicles

1:44.5

introduced across the United States in the next few years.

1:50.1

And the reason is they cost like nothing to operate.

1:54.5

There's almost nothing to break and what the energy costs, the equivalent cost per mile

2:01.2

versus buying gasoline is like zip.

2:05.4

You can figure the typical electric vehicle will get an equivalent average fuel economy

2:13.2

compared to gasoline of about 120 miles per gallon, which is unreal.

2:20.7

Numbers people can't really grasp.

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