GNW fails to allow for the use of plug in cars for much other than replacing golf carts for puttering around town. No way these would function in the cold and exceedingly long roads with limited fuel stops, let alone roadside 240v plugs. Recent pricing for electrons hovers around $0.20 Kw/h up here. Diesel or NatGas power the grid, as much as it might be thought of that way. I did see one Leaf the other day. Not much in the way of Priapusi.
The price of road #2 is lower than standard unleaded. By around a dime or less, but good enough. Lots of big trucks to use it, and I think there is even a refinery that makes it, instead of shipping it to Cherry Point in WA. Whatcom Country (where the BP and Philips refineries live) is voting to limit their future production, so that fuel prices will rise for the social justice voters and will impact prices here. The ’74 SL has the range of a Tesla, the SD and SDL almost twice that. Sadly, there are no qualified mechanics here to keep them on the road. clay monroe > On Jul 25, 2019, at 7:11 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Yeahbut, you need to ask "How often do I make a 350 mile trip?" If you answer > is "a couple times a year" then you need to redo the math and see if renting > a gas powered vehicle for those times makes sense. > All of that assumes you're going to be spending $35k or so on a new vehicle > anyway. > Besides I laugh at your puny 350 mile range, I fueled the Jetta today at 615 > miles. It took 13.3 gallons of diesel which I was actually disappointed with. > Lots of around town driving on that tank. We actually went camping last > weekend and the drive there was all 2 lane, 55mph, nearly 60mpg. On the way > back it was more like 55mpg but the AC was pumping at 97F ambient... > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
