What will the electric car do to your electric bill? How many kilowatts will be needed to charge the battery? I could see the cost per mile for your electric car could make $4 per gallon gasoline look cheap.
in socal this would be a $5000 per month electric bill if you charged it 8 hours a day, every day. Whats next horse and buggy??? Seems to me that all this “New Alternatives” are a GIANT STEP BACKWARDS.
Using some of the claims above and my local cost of electricity:
3300 watts (on a 120V line)
20 hours (on a 120V line)
3300 x 20 / 1000 = 66 kw-hrs
$0.10 cost per kw-hr (Progress Energy SC))
66 x .10 = $6.60 cost of a full charge
100 miles on a full charge
$6.60 / 100 = $0.066 Electricity cost per mile
For comparison, assuming $2.80/gallon and 32 mpg, a gasoline powered car will consume $0.088 of gas per mile.
I'm not going to rush out and buy one.