And will a huge electric bill, like several hundred dollars, be a great path. Is there a breakdown on a cost comparison, on a cents per mile basis, for electric from the grid vs gasoline?
Shhhhhhhh... Do not mention this fact about the extremely high electrical bill if we use electric cars.
Depends on what the cost of that power would be. A large overnight demand would drastically change the economics of power generation.
Furthermore, millions of plug-in vehicles is in essence a huge distributed storage system: one big national battery. In this scenario wind power would be, by a significant margin, cheaper than coal and nat-gas electricity.
You must not be from Texas.
An electric car wouldn't mean a few hundred dollar electric bill, but at least a $1000 one during the summer (Since A/C alone was $600/month last summer).
I'm all for electric cars and will probably build one myself when my son gets older, but saying stuff like wind energy is stronger at night and 500 mpg throws up huge red flags for me, too.
That's is the kind of hype marketeers spew and not the engineers that actually have to make it work.
Suggest you read the ENTIRE article prior to posting such questions. The answer is there for you to find.
Electricity at 12 cents per KWH costs about twice as much per BTU as gasoline. Electricity also has no road taxes. If it got to be a significant source of energy for travel, I'm sure road taxes would soon follow.
And will a huge electric bill, like several hundred dollars, be a great path. Is there a breakdown on a cost comparison, on a cents per mile basis, for electric from the grid vs gasoline?
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That fact is indeed important. I do know that wind, clean coal, nuclear, and other alternatives are much more economical when used for the electrical grid, and that the hardest area to introduce them is for transportation. The battery issue is the key link.