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Plug-in Electric... anyone have one?

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If so, can anyone that does have one let us know how much their electric bill went up, along with typical driving scenarios for yourself?
 
Nope, but I saw that my company bought one. A plug-in Smart car... I wouldn't mind taking that for a spin, but too bad most of the time I travel well in excess of 200 Km per trip.
 
Have a listen to the podcast "Transport Evolved" - the host and guests often speak of the experiences they have with the new Leaf, and other alternate transportation. I suspect that you can do the math yourself using the appropriate formulae, given the somewhat known cost of electricity.

Do the math yourself, but I recall it came out to somewhere in the neighborhood of 30kwh for a full charge, so for the typical 100 miles - it costs in pure electricity: 3.33 miles per kwh - = 0.15 per kwh = $0.033 per mile. So if you charge empty to full every day - it would be somewhere around 900kwh extra per month - or $135 to go 3000 miles.

Thats not the total cost though since you need to add in the cost of batt maintenance and the charger itself and any away from home charging too.
 
I've run the numbers a million times, with costs where they are now these cars are still quite expensive.
 
angry hampster said:
So you'd be willing to dump $25,000 (IE the Nissan Leaf) so that you can drive your current vehicles less and save money on gas? I'm not sure I follow the thought process.
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I'm a two-car person. I have my comfy highway cruiser and project car (an '87 Caprice) and a daily driver (a 97 Cavalier). The Cavalier has 230k miles on the odometer, so its time is limited. I expect it to hit about 300k miles, but not much more than that. I'd need to get a new(er) car sooner or later. A leaf would be better suited to the role of my dd. (and no, I wouldn't likely be getting it brand new...)
 
bobdole369 said:
Have a listen to the podcast "Transport Evolved" - the host and guests often speak of the experiences they have with the new Leaf, and other alternate transportation. I suspect that you can do the math yourself using the appropriate formulae, given the somewhat known cost of electricity.

Do the math yourself, but I recall it came out to somewhere in the neighborhood of 30kwh for a full charge, so for the typical 100 miles - it costs in pure electricity: 3.33 miles per kwh - = 0.15 per kwh = $0.033 per mile. So if you charge empty to full every day - it would be somewhere around 900kwh extra per month - or $135 to go 3000 miles.

Thats not the total cost though since you need to add in the cost of batt maintenance and the charger itself and any away from home charging too.
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I know these numbers are pretty much theoretical ball park numbers, but thanks. Given I put about $15 in my car over the course of about 10 days to get me through the week back and forth to work, it's probably not worth it to consider.
 
Oops, posted this in the wrong thread. Leaving it here though since it's still semi-relevent.


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