I was looking at the fuel economy and am curious if they are saying that it costs $1.08 to charge the car for 4 hours at 240v?
I’m calling BS on that...
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/phevsbs.shtml
What do you pay for 16 kiloWattHours?
They’re misrepresenting (at least) the price of a kWh of electricity. I pay $.13 base price. But that goes up when you start using lots of electricity per month, which an electric car would certainly do in spades.
Tier1 - 477 kWh @ $0.13
Tier2 - 121 kWh @ $0.15
Tier3 - 139 kWh @ $0.23
Tier4 - 14 kWh @ $0.27
Tier5 - [the rest] kWh @ $0.30
And this is on my current bill after I’ve downsized. Last year in a large house and property they were gouging me at $0.54 on Tier 5. I was hitting >$700 per month electric bills in the summer.
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.