Electric Cars & Magical Mileages
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If gas-powered cars were EPA rated in miles per dollar instead of miles per gallon, this wouldn't be so hard for people to understand. The ignorance in the comments at that article is discouraging. |
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If you're in it for environmentalism, then that difference is meaningful for you (though I suspect that a modern coal plant is pretty decently clean compared to a thousand badly maintained gas powered cars). In that case, you'd probably want miles-per-emissionsPPM or something. If you're in it for the money, miles-per-dollar is what matters for fuel economy. |
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You have to love it when you get the rest of the story.
Battery life expectancy. Charges on your electric bill that are not the per killowatt rate. The fact that govt will find a way to tax you on the electricity you use in your vehicle to compensate for the lost revenue from gasoline taxes. Discussions are already under way for annual charges to cover lost gas tax revenues. Considering battery life expectancy electric vehicles are estimated to cost 5to 10 cents a mile to operate. Today I got 65 MPG on gas that cost $2.19 per gallon, about 3.2 cents a mile. regards gary |
{(though I suspect that a modern coal plant is pretty decently clean compared to a thousand badly maintained gas powered cars)}
To gas powered, likely older, cars, yeah. But how many of our coal plants are modern? An electric car charged by current coal plants is dirtier than a real hybrid. With the adoption of EVs we need to move away from coal. Then again, we should move away from coal even without the EVs. |
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