Electricity prices

[Mickey1992]

I was reading the news story about the Chevy Volt and read the following.....

"It takes about eight hours to recharge through a 120-volt outlet, costing about 80 cents a day assuming a price of 10 cents per kilowatt-hour."

I thought to myself, wow, who has to pay $.10 per kwh.  So I Google'd it.

HOLY CRAP.

I only pay about $.075 per kwh.  I was surprised to see certain areas like the NE paying so much more.  The average price in CT is $.1856!!  More than twice what I am paying.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_b.html

[avionix]

80 cents to fill up the battery for a drive of how long?  Not too bad.  The only thing is having to charge for 8 hrs.  We need to develop the technology to where we can charge for 10-15 minutes for a full charge and several hundred miles per fill.  That would be nice.

[Mickey1992]

40 miles on the batteries, then the gas engine kicks in to charge the batteries.  I think the range of batteries + gas engine recharge is 300 miles.  Of course the battery technology is not finalized yet.