[jtminton]

That has to lead to amazing savings, with electricity being free and all.

No doubt. I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

[GOP_1900AD]

And here in PG&E land, electricity ain't cheap at all.

[randog]

I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

Yeah, but out of sight, out of mind. Besides, that fuel is being burned in Red States, so it's their fault that Mother Earth's Precious Resources® are being depleted at an alarming rate.

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[two short planx]

It can be if you plug into your neighbours outside plug

[smokinleroy]

I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

Plus a lot of the energy is wasted through heat from steam pipes, lossy generators, lossy transformers, lossy transmission lines, more lossy transformers, lossy rectifiers, ...

[Serenissima Venezia]

I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

True, but it would be fuel that is a resource we have and wouldn't be dependent upon a foreign source. I don't know the stats on the megawatts produced by each type of power plant, but gas turbine plants are probably the most plentiful and natural gas is a U.S. commodity (although it isn't cheap!). Ditto for coal for the coal-fired plants. I don't know where the radioactive material comes from for the nuclear plants, though.

It would be interesting to see how much electricity it takes to power up one of these super-hybrids and see if it really is cost effective. Especially here in CA where electricity is costly.

[Teacher317]

I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

Better to burn American coal than Middle-Eastern oil.

[A. Pole]

No doubt. I wonder if people realize that electric cars still use fuel, it just gets burned at the power plant.

We need more nuclear power plants!