Joshua Garcia saw the gas price writing on the wall. Garcia, a 40-year-old in Texas, works in logistics. He's acutely aware of how much fuel costs, since he drives around 96 miles round-trip to his office daily. In mid-December, Garcia got an EV. He said his charging costs are around $79 a month, compared to the $750 — virtually another car payment — he anticipated spending on gas in the event of the kind of unrest we're seeing in the Middle East , though he did shell out for an at-home charger.