[SC Swamp Fox]

What will the electric car do to your electric bill? How many kilowatts will be needed to charge the battery?

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.

[freedumb2003]

>>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.

[NVDave]

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....

[Kellis91789]

66kwhs would not get you 100 miles. It would get you 250 miles. So your cost would be under $0.0265 per mile.