<VV> Electric costs for electric cars?

[jvhroberts at aol.com]

 Chevy claims in their commercials for the Volt, based on the national average electric rates, you can go 40 miles on $1.50 of electricity. Not bad at all! Now, not sure what's going to happen, tax regulation wise, when the fraction of electrics becomes substantial...

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lee <chaz at properproper.com>
To: jvhroberts <jvhroberts at aol.com>; dpleau <dpleau at wavecable.com>; virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 10:48 pm
Subject: Electric costs for electric cars?


While the "electric car" commercials show the great gas mileage, has anyone
seen what their electric bill was for the same period, adjusted for increase
due to charging batteries ?

In SoCal, air conditioners can easily quadruple electric costs, (anywhere
from 8 to 33 cents per KwHr, whereas upstate NY may be 1/3 of that), so what
does having to feed an electric car add to that cost?

Just curious, since they seem to ignore it in their commercials.

Charlie


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From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of jvhroberts at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:10 PM
To: dpleau at wavecable.com; virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Is the Volt the new Corvair?



 Another hate piece by the anti car Nazis. Not to worry. The Corvair was
unique. The Volt is the first of what is going to be a whole herd of
extended range electric cars. There's already a Prius flavor due out any
time now. And with the invention of reliable lithium-ion batteries, which
are only getting better all the time, these are technically quite practical,
and soon will also be economically practical. 
This is THE first serious attempt to power a car, even partially, by
something other than a petroleum distillate and/or product. 

 

John Roberts
 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Pleau <dpleau at wavecable.com>
To: virtualvairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 3:37 pm
Subject: <VV> Is the Volt the new Corvair?


http://news.yahoo.com/chevy-volt-corvair-193700844.html

 

Have fun.

 

dp

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