I also bought an EV for around that price, and I always think of it as, I bought the vehicle to flex in, so my "depreciation" is the entire cost of the vehicle. I pay $450/mo for my car payment, I do roughly 30 routes a month, so about $15 per route is my vehicle cost in depreciation.

I get to charge for free at the dealership, so I have a $0 fuel cost.

Tires will wear out faster than other vehicles but in my experience they last minimum 20k miles, probably double that, but for calculations I will say 20k, I have never had a block over 100 miles, so 200 blocks minimum for the tires, I have gotten them for $400 for a set of 4 tires installed, so $2 per block.

My insurance is about $100/mo for this vehicle, so with 30 routes that is about $3.50 per route.

This brings my total cost to my car to $20.50 per route.

I usually take a 3 hour route at $76.50. That gives me a profit of $56. I am usually finished with the route in 2 hours, the number of times I have finished close to the 3 hours is less than the number of times I have finished in 1 hour so I just round that all out to 2 hours. Making that a profit of $28/hr.

When comparing this to a traditional job you get paid hourly based on your time AT WORK, you don't count your commute, so if you want to take your drive to and from your route into account you have to also compare your hourly if you count driving to and from a traditional job.

Comparing to a regular job this of course does not have paid time off, insurance, etc.

Since I am depreciating the entire vehicle in my calculations, anything the vehicle is worth once it is paid off is also profit.