[mc6809e]

You must not be from Texas. An electric car wouldn't mean a few hundred dollar electric bill, but at least a $1000 one during the summer.

How the hell do you figure that? You're just guessing, aren't you?

Electric will most likely beat gasoline for very obvious reasons.

The first is due to the poor efficiencies of gasoline engines. About 25% of the energy in the gasoline is used to move the car. The rest is wasted as heat. An electric car is about 85% efficient. A power plant could literally burn gasoline in a 40% efficient turbine to make electricity for electric cars and it would still be cheaper per gallon to run electric than it would direct gasoline.

The second reason is that power plants don't burn gasoline. They burn cheaper fuels like coal. Electric cars use can make use of this even cheaper source of energy.

So what ever you pay for gasoline, you'll probably pay less in electricity to go the same distance.

The only thing that causes problems for electric is the mass of the batteries which hurts milage. That's much less of a problem now than in the past due to great improvements in battery technology.

Here's a site that shows gasoline versus electric. The yearly cost in electricity for 8000 miles of travel is estimated to be just $265.75 at $0.08/kWH.

[Erik Latranyi]

So what ever you pay for gasoline, you'll probably pay less in electricity to go the same distance.

You might be right at today's prices. Yet electricity production and prices are regulated by gov't.

Oil production and pricing is controlled mostly by the free market.

Your endorsement of electicity is an endorsement of more goverment control of your life.

[RFEngineer]

"Electric will most likely beat gasoline for very obvious reasons. "

Maybe they are obvious to you, but physics says otherwise.

Internal combustion beats electric every time for like vehicles.

every time.

[UNGN]

How the hell do you figure that? You're just guessing, aren't you?

Here's a site that shows gasoline versus electric. The yearly cost in electricity for 8000 miles of travel is estimated to be just $265.75 at $0.08/kWH.

Number 1 we pay .14/KWH and number 2, your calculations are for a vehicle with 27 HP.

That is 27 HP MAX

Try Multiply that 300 watt/mile number by 5 for a car we think of as an actual honest to goodness car (though it would still be a 100 hp Sh!tbox Dog)

Crunch away.

You'll find a 30 mpg Gasoline powered crapbox is still cheaper to operate.