Haters gonna hate.
What you don't get is that most driving is short trips. So for a 25 mile daily
round trip (or a series of trips that add up to 25 miles) you'd pay ~$2/day.
A 32mpg car on $3.50 gas pays $2.73. After 42,465 trips you've paid for the
car. Thats only 116 years if you drove 25 miles every day.
The mileage will also depend on what kind of driving you do. These cars are
intended to get decent mileage in the city where regular gas cars do poorly.
Buying one for a mostly highway commute is foolish. Also the Volt is bigger
than a $15,000 car and has more creature comforts.
Am I saying the Volt is a great car? No but change has to start somewhere.
You're a crab bucket (Google it), just want to drag everybody back down because
you didn't think of it first.
-Curt
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:49:54 -0600
From: Hans Neureiter <diese...@gmail.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <Mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Volt vs. Gas
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Who ever wrote this made a small mistake.
I pay $0.12 per KWH. A full charge will cost ~$ 2.00
or $0.08/mile vs. $0.125/mile on gas.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Hans Neureiter <diese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 270 miles in 14.5 hours would be < 20 mph averge speed.
>
> According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 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.$4.00 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.125 per mile.
> Gasoline prices would have to rise to $23.68/gal to break even
> (assuming the cost for electricity -?to charge the Volt?s batteries ?-
> remained unchanged).
> The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.
>
> So we are encouraged to 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.REALLY?
>
> --
> Hans Neureiter, Katy, TX
> '82 300SD
> '01 VW New Beetle 1.9L TDI
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