At what $/gallon would it slow you down?
Not just a B-van question. I've been looking thru videos on RV's overseas. Of course they are much smaller due to fuel costs, road conditions and land values, among other reasons, I'm sure. It's ki...
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PUCampin wrote:
I know you are not in California, but here where we are so cutting edge and electric cars are a regular fixture, you save virtually nothing over a gas car because our electricity is so expensive!! Ironic isn't it?
Example: My 2001 focus gets 30mpg highway for my commute. I commute 2200mi a month. 2200/30 = 73 * $4/g = $292.
The Chevy Volt gets an epa rated 2.7mi/KWh. So 2200/2.7 = 815KWh. This will all be at the penalty tier 4 rate because our allocated baseline is so small. So 815KWh * $0.32/KWh = $260
For me it would not be much savings. If your car gets 34mpg, there is no difference.
Seems like the primary motivator for EV purchase there is solo HOV lane access. I’ve read several stories of people buying PHEVs (especially the Plug-In Prius) just for the green stickers and then never plugging them in.
Without CARB there would have been no EV1, no Tesla, and no Volt. It’s a shame there’s not much financial benefit to actually owning one in CA.
At those kinds of prices per kWh, installing solar panels starts to make sense on a purely financial basis (assuming one has the space). $0.396/kWh is the feed-in-tariff rate the government pays us here to sell rooftop solar power back to the grid, in order to promote expansion of solar power.
