Roland, Thanks for post that useful tidbit of data. Your results do a great job of quantifying what many of us have believed for years, but have lacked some "independent" method of confirmation.
-Tom On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Roland Wiench <[email protected]> wrote: > I drove my ICE for the first time this year. I normally start it up once > a month and run it for about 15 minutes, but not drive. I drive it once a > year adding a gallon of gas which cost $3.45 a gallon to freshen the > remaining gas in the tank. > > Back in the 50's it cost me about $4.00 for 20 gallons of gas per month, > so it feels very good, that it only cost me that much for the year. > > This vehicle is a sister vehicle to the EV with the same body style. It > uses a Holly fuel flow digital reader, where it displays instant gallons > use, average miles per gallon use, distance travel and time of travel. > > To find out if the EV can travel the same route for a distance that might > take 50% SOC to run, I first test the amount of fuel it takes to run this > course with the ICE. I normally run the ICE until I use the one gallon of > gas. > > The ambient temperature was at 45 degrees F. The engine was at 65 degrees > (garage) and move out right away without too much warm up over 2 minutes. > Start driving up the same steep hill I do with the EV which normally takes > 2.2 AH, the average mpg read 4.7 mpg for the 1st mile. The 2nd mile > driving on level grade, it about double to 8.2 mpg. > > After 2 miles, the engine is warm up and now the running averaging 13 mpg > in these roller coaster hills in this town. Every time I stop for a > traffic light which idles the engine for up to 1 to 2 minutes, the mpg can > drop back to 8 mpg. The EV with the idle off shows 0 motor and battery > ampere during these stops. > > EV for 2 miles driving the same course with a battery temperature of 65 F > normally gets 3.3 ah per mile, the down hill run shows 0 motor and battery > ampere. > > I than can estimate that it could take about 8 miles x 3.3 ah = 26.4 Ah. > I normally drive the 8 mile route once a week with the EV and ampere hour > usage has very from 18 to 22 ah. > > At 22 ah, it takes about 60 minutes to charge the batteries at 25 amps at > 250 vac. > > Therefore 25a x 250v = 6250 watts or 6.250 kwr. I pay about $0.10 kwr so > this 8 mile run cost me about $0.625 for the EV as compare to the ICE at > $3.45. > > Roland > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131026/0c0fa3d1/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- Remember, it is not that the glass is half empty, in reality, the glass is merely twice the size that it needs to be! -TNT'82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20131026/8013f2bf/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
