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To: LogicDesigner

Not true and not honest.
The cost/gal is about $1.50 equiv.
More important though is that the extra cost of the electric car is NEVER paid for in at-speed driving!

While with enough stop-and-go driving the extra cost CAN be paid for in the lifetime of the vehicle for hybrids.
Though not for 100 grand toys- but hundred grand toys purchasers wouldn’t care anyway!


118 posted on 01/28/2015 3:19:46 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Right.

High end cars don’t see 300k miles like a Camry or Fusion. They’re ditched before 200k miles because complex systems break down and they’re too annoying to ignore and too expensive to fix. Otherwise they become collector items and no one cares about cost per mile on a collector item.


120 posted on 01/28/2015 3:25:05 PM PST by hlmencken3 (“I paid for an argument, but you’re just contradicting!”)
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To: mrsmith
“Not true and not honest. The cost/gal is about $1.50 equiv. More important though is that the extra cost of the electric car is NEVER paid for in at-speed driving!”

Well, it all depends on how much you are paying per kWh. Regardless, it most definitely is for “at-speed driving” if we are talking about EPA rated highway miles. If you are talking about stop-and-go driving it goes from being remotely comparable to completely blowing it out of the water.

Obviously the sweet spot for electric efficiency is at lower speeds. But even when comparing at higher speeds, which is the sweet spot for gasoline vehicles, electric still costs less.

128 posted on 01/28/2015 3:56:11 PM PST by LogicDesigner
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