These articles never mention the option of buying a regular used car. What if I buy a used Honda Civic for $8,000, a car like that can easily last 10 years, and beat every car in their table on total 5 year cost even with thousands in repairs.<p>Also they mention 18% loss of battery pack capacity in only 2 years. It seems like someone might want to buy a new battery pack after 5 years and I wonder how much that would cost. I really want to buy an electric car, but they just don't make sense to me yet.