Cost to recharge a 16 kwh battery
The cost in Illinois to fully recharge the car is $8.38 each time in Illinois. The judge didn't tell the truth.
Doesn’t it state right in the article you linked that the national average cost for 40 miles of driving (about half battery bank capacity) is around 85 cents and Illinois isn’t far off the average? That’s about what I would have guessed. So a hypothetical full charge would be about $1.70. I am under the weather (not Sandy) today and may be misinterpreting something here.
On a related matter, the liberals never seem to make the connection between charging electric cars and how much electricity is needed to do so.
If the liberals got their wish, and we had millions of electric cars on the road tomorrow, we would need to sharply increase the amount of electrical generation capacity to deal with that.
And, that would likely involve more coal fired power plants.
Increasing the use of pollution free electric cars could actually increase the dreaded greenhouse gases, because of the need to generate huge amounts of electricity in fossil fuel power plants.
But, cause and effect, consequences of actions, are often lost on liberals, who urge us to dream of their utopia.
I guess maybe you are talking about some sort of convenience charging plan (probably much higher charge rate - amps). I’m going to bed.
Sorry, you're having trouble reading.
The math is simple -- at (say) 8 cents per kWh, a 16kWh battery will require 16 * 8 = $1.28 to charge fully. At (say) 5 cents per kWh, it's 80 cents.
Where do you get 10 times that much? I think you missed a decimal.
Where did you learn math? I see no lie.