Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Mickey1992 on September 16, 2008, 02:19:37 PM
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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
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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.
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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.