A friend of mine told me if you wanted to use a public charging station it costs .32 cents per minute that would be $19.20 an hour and $76.80 for 4 hours of charging, Is this correct ? If it is why would anybody want an electric car ?
Charging is $1 an hour at local charging stations here in Oregon. Not sure where your friend got his info, maybe downtown Manhattan or something?
I can charge my Leaf at home for roughly $3 and that is good for 70 miles of driving. That is roughly the same as a car that gets 100 mpg with $5 per gallon gas. Electric cars have very low maintenance costs so that adds to the savings. I've owned my Leaf for 5 years and haven't had to spend any money on maintenance other than buying a new cabin air filter at 35K miles.
