Posted on 01/16/2011 8:39:26 PM PST by Rabin
Electric-car makers and utilities said most owners will probably charge their vehicles at night when the rates are lower. But because of the tiered rate system, their electricity bills will still probably be high… One plug-in hybrid Volt would increase the average household's electrical usage 60%...
California households pay steeper rates for their electricity compared with other states -- about 35% more than the national average...
(Excerpt) Read more at articles.latimes.com ...
A more likely scenario is that all those figures are doubled: 20 HP -> 15 kW-hr per hour of operation.
At California’s 2010 average residential electricity rate of 15 cents per kW-hr. this is then about $2.25 per hour of operation.
Not a bad deal, actually.
FYI:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2656905/posts
California may have the highest costs for charging electric vehicles
Imagine when a whole flock of them arrive in a business’ parking lot in the morning and expect to charge up for free for the commute home in the evening.
Just plug it into the electric clothes dryer socket,,,usually 220V.
Only if you are the only one in your area with one. Wait until every tree hugger in the neighbourhood is charging.
cities here in cal are already setting up charging stations, gee I wonder who is going to be paying for the elect used......
Also, the state and Feds will find a way to make up for the drop in fuel tax revenue (Think “seperate meter for your car charging station with a special electric car rate per kW Hour.”).
My building's parking contractor has been working with the on-site facility manager to get ahead of the curve. They've placed solid cover plates over all the wall outlets on the parking levels.
746 watts = 1 Hp.
Battery chargers are less then 65% efficient due to poor
power factor and harmonic distortion.
Batteries are not 100% electrochemical converters.
More on the order of 60% - 70%.
That's why they get so damn hot when you charge them.
You can not put 1kw into a battery and get 1kw
out. Not never.
Electrical distribution losses from the grid to the
chargers can easily be 8%.
High power chargers will have 3 - 5 % power loss just
in local wiring alone.
Traction Inverters tend to be around 85 -90 % efficient.
Add it up.
Carnot's law will not be broken.
Average retail price of electricity to ultimate customers by end-use sector, by state (2009)
In short, you just can’t win.
But the good people of California voted for liberalism so
they must desire to be poor.
Lemmings over the cliff.
They’ll save the same amount by banning incandescent light bulbs? (sarc off)
Wasn’t the whole point of banning light bulbs to save on the generation of coal fired electricity?
The Coal Powered Volt.
“Power thefts will be on the rise”
The state of California will have the increased cost of patrolling high volt towers, looking for pirate wires run parallel to the high voltage source stealing inductively induced electricity from said high volt towers.
Did I just say that? Ma bad!
“Lemmings over the cliff.”
A falacy that Californians may prove right?
News at 11.
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