"The question is, though, how many miles do you get to drive with that $1.44 of electricity, and would $1.44 worth of hydrocarbon fuel take you further?:
They may have an answer here:
http://www.calcars.org/
The question is, though, how many miles do you get to drive with that $1.44 of electricity, and would $1.44 worth of hydrocarbon fuel take you further?
They are modifying hybrids, adding battery pack and charger. From what I remember reading, it sounds like about 50-60 MPG on a charge, not a bad deal. For most people that covers your commute to and from work. If I had a hybrid modified in this way I could probably go for months and have to do nothing other than plug it in at night. A charge every day would mean you might spend $525 per year. $at 50 miles per day only, you could travel 18250 miles per year and never go to a gas station. All this depends, of course, on the info on the web site being accurate and correct. But as far as I can tell this is just a good example of AMERICAN engineers coming up with a good and workable solution to this problem.
http://www.calcars.org/vehicles.html
If gasoline has 37 KWH/gallon and electricity costs 10c/KWH, then the equivalent cost of electricity is $3.70/gallon.
The site you linked assumes the equivalence to be $1.00.
It looks like you don't gain much by plugging them in to charge, in fact you lose, since the juice costs more than the equivalent gas.
You get the illusion of tremendous MPG, though, since you don't use much gasoline, but are burning oil at a remote plant.
If you charged from a windmill you'd save. Windmills are a viable option, but the USG subsidizes home windplants (a negative from my viewpoint)- if you ignore the capital investment it's "free" electricity.