Posted on 05/08/2010 7:37:51 AM PDT by mylife
What a plan!! Only $11,000.
You wanna see traffic clogs?
Just wait ‘till the liberals start buying Leafmobiles and find they have to creep along at 20 mph on busy roads trying to squeeze a few more miles out of them just to get home to their federally-subsidized charging station without having to call for a tow truck.
LOL, great plan. I was only going to mention an auxilliary gasoline heater...looks like you’ve got the A/C problem covered as well!
I really like Nissan styling, but Volkwagen has a better idea: a four cylinder engine with a turbocharger! Wheeeeeeee! It’s economical until you need to accelerate and then it’s a kick in the seat.
Forget all those batteries and Rube Goldberg devices.
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/ArthurGolnik.shtml. Its in kilograms so you have to convert...
motor efficiencies are over 90%. Chargers in the high 90s.
OK then, 97% charger efficiency, and 92% motor efficiency...
At 8 cents per KW-hr average (14.3 cents in New York state) the 40 KW-hr battery will take $3.58 cents to “fill up” and a high of $6.41 in NY.
Sounds like a fill up is more than half the price of old fashioned gasoline - after you have spent $33,000 on a puny little car...:^)
“Sounds like a fill up is more than half the price of old fashioned gasoline”
I wasn’t arguing that the electric car is viable, only that the numbers being used were wrong.
Indeed, the price of charging an electric car is bound to go up substantially once their in common use, because the tax man will find a way to extract the road tax...
Also, the electric car ends up polluting MORE, because much of the electricity will be generated by burning coal.
“its less than half that in useful energy, i.e. propulsion.”
Actually it’s worse than that... This efficiency conversion was based on both the gasoline engine and the electric motor(s) being the same size. They are not.
The sizing for electric motors in EV conversions is odd. A vehicle that used a 100HP engine would only take about a 20 HP electric motor to give similar performance. This is well established and has to do with the rating systems for gas versus electric motors among other things. Brake HP for gas engines and average for electric motors.
So we wouldn’t be comparing a 26 KW gas engine to a 26 kw electric motor. The equivalent gas engine would be maybe 120 KW.
In my opinion, Hybrids make a lot more sense than electrics though.
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