... Hmmm ... I don't follow your math ... you seem to be high by a factor of 8.
The car has a EPA range of about 225 miles ... yes, your mileage will depend on how you drive ... but a 225 mile trip that consumes the entire 50kWH energy store consumes 222WH/mi. If it takes you 3.5 hours to make the trip (64 mph), then you consume a little over 14kW/hr. Remember that you are not accelerating the full mass at full throttle ... you're freeway cruising with enough throttle to overcome air and rolling resistance.
That’s all fine and dandy, but what happens when a driver plugs their i-Pod in the dash charger? How will that affect your calculations?!? Hmmmmm? (sarcasm- I think)
Electricity costs about 7.93 cents/kwH here. Most of the power generation is hydroelectric, which doesn’t fund sand-pounding morons in the ME.
With a 225 mile range for 50kwH, that works out to about 0.22 kW/mile, or 1.8 cents/mile.
My 2001 “flying brick” Jeep Wrangler gets about 14 miles/gallon. Let’s be conservative, though, and say you have some smallish gasoline powered car that gets 28 miles/gallon. At $3.60/gallon, that works out to around 13 cents/mile.
Now a significant percentage of the true cost/mile comes from non-fuel expenses: The amortized cost of the car, repairs, tires, insurance, taxes and tolls. I have to believe that once these things are commonplace, the repair cost on an electric vehicle is going to be less than that of an Internal Combustion Engine, but maybe not if you factor in the cost to replace the batteries every 100K miles.
But any way you slice it, 1.8 cents/mile sounds a lot better to me than 13 cents/mile, especially when you consider that it is within our ability to move to nuclear and coal power generation and be completely energy independent.
I know it is tough to support an issue tha the liberals also support, as 99% of the time they are wrong, but in this case I think we have an issue that both conservatives and liberals can support. Being energy independent is a national security issue.