Cost to operate a chevy Volt...daily electric use is 18.56 per c

*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 battery 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 our government wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more than
7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.

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• 財經記者沒上好數學課， 把電費擴大了近十倍 -原野青蛙- ♀ (795 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 09:51:17

• 開電動車會超過Baseline -tsc12- ♂ (255 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:09:15

• 可是那老哥算得是 $1.16 一度電，天下沒這麽貴的電。 -原野青蛙- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:25:56

• $0.3 x 15 kwhr = $4.50/day -tsc12- ♂ (19 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:51:19

• $0.3 is a good "max" price tag for 1 kwh you actually pay for -YH- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2012 postreply 08:05:52

• Baseline也會升高 -滿地找牙- ♂ (1471 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 12:12:58

• FOX也是個扯蛋基地 -滿地找牙- ♂ (286 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:38:26

• 另外,拿不成熟的電池車跑長途,也是腦殘行為 -滿地找牙- ♂ (152 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:08:02

• 11cents per kwh. The -lovecorn- ♂ (68 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:23:41

• 這是平均值，開電動車會超過baseline -tsc12- ♂ (23 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:27:14

• do you know what 平均值 means? -lovecorn- ♂ (44 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:31:26

• 你知道電費會隨使用量而大漲？ -tsc12- ♂ (45 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:36:01

• 電費漲價是個可能性,漲多少?怎麽算“大”漲.那油價不漲嗎? -滿地找牙- ♂ (110 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:53:00

• 你看過上麵我給的表嗎？ -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 12:03:02

• 如果按照你的3毛錢電費算,那麽那個地區的油價不可能才3塊出頭 -滿地找牙- ♂ (251 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:35:57

• 笑死了，“過夜充電，都是用的低價電" -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:37:39

• 你沒見過,那就隻好慢慢笑吧 -滿地找牙- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:39:07

• 你看過電費賬單嗎？ -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:49:02

• 笑死了,有人數學不好,被別有用心的利用一把... -lovecorn- ♂ (34 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:27:41

• there are a bunch of surcharges associated with electricity bill -YH- ♀ (152 bytes) () 03/22/2012 postreply 08:04:24

• 回複：Cost to operate a chevy Volt...daily electric use is 18.56 pe -3271963- ♀ (595 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 12:20:58

• Here we have something called fuel adjustment charge. Sometimes -YH- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2012 postreply 08:00:38

• it costs more than the electricity consumed. -YH- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/22/2012 postreply 08:01:20