Cost to operate a Chevy Volt
Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.
Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh batery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery hold 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.
The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.
So you pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more that 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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add in tesla's work and wammo no cost at all....
PG&E charges about $0.12/Kwh so you seem to be off by a factor of 10. This means the Volt costs $.07/mile. 30% cheaper than your gas powered vehicle. Where do you get $1.16/Kwh?
anyone who has half a brain and actually attempts to use it, knew that electric cars were bullshit after the original test balloon of the EV1 which was only released to a small number of people and was not actually purchased, but was "leased" and had to be returned.
Then came bogus Prius which really only took off a a novelty to pseudo-geeks who finally had a chance to show off their smarts (ego) by buying one. Anyone with any real scientific knowledge knew it was more bullshit and passed. To make a long story short, how the fuck do you "conserve energy" when you use more energy in the manufacture of the thing than a regular car AND it takes more energy to keep it fueled than it does to create the gasoline that fuels regular cars while STILL having to fuel the "electric" car more often and STILL use gas anyway? How much DUMBER can you be?
Having an "electric" vehicle is really only showing the world that you really are not as smart as you THINK that you are.
The Volt was always intended to be a joke that propped up Big Oil. We've had better electric cars than this for about 100 years. Tesla's car drew in electrical charge from ambient sources with an antennae. Another version in the 20's employed still-viable nickle-iron batteries that last for decades. Chemical batteries have been obsolete since the 90's. Ultracapacitors are now the future of energy storage and are cheap and abundant. The Aptera gets 300-400 mpg and no press. The volt is an Illuminatti joke on Humanity. Check www dot psen dot com for real solutions and don't swallow GM's lies. My 2005 Prius blows the new Volt away with it's antique NiMH batts. A simple upgrade to LiFEPO4 would make it a 100-150 MPG 'Plug-In' Hybrid. The technology is not lacking. The problem is greed.
I pay .10 per KWH here in Washington state. The highest KWH rate I know of is in Alaska they pay .16/kwh. nowhere NEAR your mentioned rates. Makes me wonder about all of your other data as well. sounds invented to me.
I KNEW the so-called "Hybrid Cars' were a scam when they first came out..Hell the COST of those cars were a dead give away to me...only the SHEEPLE buy into crap like that...I stopped driving the day gasoline went over $2.50@Gallon...about 7 years ago! Folks...If you can live without a car DO IT...STOP Feeding the Energy Monsters!!!
As a Master Electrician and home owner you do have the KWH all wrong check your figures. I do now question all your data.
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