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.
>>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.<<
Liberals really don’t like math — it is too fact-based.
Now do the numbers on a diesel hybrid and you’ll see why I think all this electric vehicle stuff is pure mental masturbation. A diesel hybrid could get 80+ MPG. Make it a plug-in hybrid if people want to go the first 40 to 50 miles on nothing but the battery.
The payback intervals on these EV’s is going to be a very long time... especially if the utilities get to pass on carbon emission costs or “green” power rates to the consumer. Suddenly that $0.066/mile power cost could go up to $0.10 to $0.20/mile power cost....
66kwhs would not get you 100 miles. It would get you 250 miles. So your cost would be under $0.0265 per mile.