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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• 财经记者没上好数学课， 把电费扩大了近十倍 -原野青蛙- ♀ (795 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 09:51:17

• 开电动车会超过Baseline -tsc12- ♂ (255 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:09:15

• 可是那老哥算得是 $1.16 一度电，天下没这么贵的电。 -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也会升高 -满地找牙- ♂ (1471 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 12:12:58

• FOX也是个扯蛋基地 -满地找牙- ♂ (286 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 10:38:26

• 另外,拿不成熟的电池车跑长途,也是脑残行为 -满地找牙- ♂ (152 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:08:02

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

• 这是平均值，开电动车会超过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

• 你知道电费会随使用量而大涨？ -tsc12- ♂ (45 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:36:01

• 电费涨价是个可能性,涨多少?怎么算“大”涨.那油价不涨吗? -满地找牙- ♂ (110 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:53:00

• 你看过上面我给的表吗？ -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 12:03:02

• 如果按照你的3毛钱电费算,那么那个地区的油价不可能才3块出头 -满地找牙- ♂ (251 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:35:57

• 笑死了，“过夜充电，都是用的低价电" -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:37:39

• 你没见过,那就只好慢慢笑吧 -满地找牙- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:39:07

• 你看过电费账单吗？ -tsc12- ♂ (0 bytes) () 03/21/2012 postreply 11:49:02

• 笑死了,有人数学不好,被别有用心的利用一把... -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

• 回复：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