Posted on 11/21/2011 11:19:27 AM PST by ColdOne
The Chevrolet Volt has been named the most fuel efficient car of all time by the Environmental Protection Agency. Well, at least since 1984.
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Fixed at what ratio? What is it currently? Unfortunately for me I'm in California, and am subject to...
http://www.sce.com/CustomerService/billing/tiered-rates/understanding-tiered-rates.htm?from=tier
And I honestly don't know what these numbers are... because I was paying 54 cents on Tier 5 before. Maybe the price has come down in the last couple of years.
This sand sculpture looks almost like a car (same as the Volt, which also resembles a real car). The sculpture has used no fuel at all, which puts it ahead of the Government Motors product. Finally, the sculpture is safer than the GM junker. Even ignoring the detail that Volt is manufactured by a corrupt organization that stiffed its rightful debtors when it defaulted on the bondholders to pay off Obama & Pelosi's cronies in the UAW, the Detroit product falls well short of the one from the beach artist (Pavel Zadanyuk).
LoL....
Lets do the math... The care is equipped with a 16kwh battery, although they keep it between 30 and 80% charged. So at most you charge it by 50%. Thats 8kwh. In my area, we pay about 10c/kwh, so that would cost me about $0.80, then you would have to figure in some extra for the inefficiencies.. I could see it coming up to about the $1.08 they are claiming.
I’m in Texas and we have lots of choices of providers and plans.
I am currently paying about 10.1¢kWH but as the price of natural gas varies at the Henry Hub, my rate will change over a range and rate.
I selected it because I believe the price of natural gas in the area will stay low.
Interesting price chart you have there. The commerical electrical rates where are I work are the inverse of that. As your use goes up the rates go down on a scale like you described, just in much bigger incriments.
The irony of this is if you make energy saving upgrades it does not lower your bill in proprtion to your use. For example, your average cost/kwh might be $0.125 on 250,000 kwh. So you think a program or upgrade that saves you 20,000 kwh will save you $2,500. But in reality you'll only save $1,600 because the top tier that 20,000 kwh came from only costs $0.08 / kwh.
However according to GM, it sold 1,108 Volts in October. This is a hefty increase from September, where GM only reported 723 Volt sales. This also brings GM closer to its 2011 sales goal, which is 10,000 Volts sold for the whole year. So did you buy the great looking vehicle? I know the $40,000. before rebate stop me.
Of course. I doesn’t run, so it just sits there. Zero energy used. Makes a great flower bed!
LOL! That was my first thought, too. :)
Government agency selects Government Motors auto as the best car.
(in ablanian) the EPA is just full of cars.
We had it for about 10 years. Well over 100,000 miles.
It disintegrated due to rust (heavy salt due to heavy snow country) at some point while I was in college. The engine was still in great shape.
I call BS on Minnesota. I am paying .1030 a kWh in a Minneapolis suburb. That would put me in the TOP bracket.
KY and TN look promising. and I am looking to escape MN.
Multiply 16KWH by $/KWH and you will get your answer. The price per KWH is different all over the country. Where I live it’s $0.11/KWH. So for a full charge 0.11 x 16 = $1.76.
1978 VW Rabbit diesel
no federal or state subsidy
free market principles made this a very popular car in the USA
My family had one and we always got over 50 mpg in real life.
They are like Taxi’s in Mexico. You save gas by pushing them!
They only use half the battery capacity so change that to 8kWH.
LLS
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