Terry sez: > Google says 2 to 4 miles per kWhr for "current" EVs. :-) > > You want air conditioning with that?
Of course! > "Savvy Vort"? Oxymoron. Here's a web page that gives it to > ya in all ways: > > http://www.accs.net/users/cefpearson/convers.htm > > In the interest of obfuscation, I vote for furlongs/joule. Setting the refined art of obfuscation aside for a second I performd a simple Excel spreadsheet calculation. Pretty interesting results: ****************************************** Cost of running an Electric Vehicle that runs at 2 miles and 4 miles per Kwh, where each KwH costs vary from 5 to 10 cents. Car driven: 1000 miles. ****************************************** Miles $$$ Miles driven: 1000 /KwH /Kwh 2 0.10 $50.00 2 0.09 $45.00 2 0.08 $40.00 2 0.07 $35.00 2 0.06 $30.00 2 0.05 $25.00 4 0.10 $25.00 4 0.09 $22.50 4 0.08 $20.00 4 0.07 $17.50 4 0.06 $15.00 4 0.05 $12.50 ***************************************** Cost of running a Gas Guzzling Car Cost per gallon of gas: $3.00 Miles driven: 1000 miles. ***************************************** Miles Cost per Gallon: $3.00 /Gallon Miles driven: 1000 10 $300.00 25 $120.00 30 $100.00 35 $85.71 45 $66.67 50 $60.00 55 $54.55 60 $50.00 65 $46.15 70 $42.86 ******************************************** ******************************************** A gas driven car buying gas at $3.00/gallon needs to get about 60 miles to the gallon just to match the cost efficiency of an all-electric vehicle running on charges costing the owner 10 cents per kilowatt hour. If KwH costs dropped to 5 cents a gas guzzler's efficiency would have to increase to 120 miles per gallon to maintain par. That's pretty impressive, and a great incentive to go to an all-electric vehicles ASAP. - assuming I did my math correctly. Seems to me that the greatest obstacle to going all out EV remains costs and adequate battery storage capacity. Based on recent news coming out of Toshiba it sounds like quick and efficient recharging problems have likely been resolved. A report claimed to be able to recharge new nano-manufactured prototypes to 80% within 60 seconds, 100% within 4-5 minutes. Of course, Mike Carell cautioned us about throughput problems. One does not want to vaporize their battery with a "quick charge!" In any case, I'd sure love those bragging rights. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
