Toyota, Electric Vehicles, Hybrids, & Chevron
04-29-08, 07:09 AM
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The question I still have is how much does it cost to charge these cars? Most if not all the charging will be done at home in your own garage. Anyone care to guess or know outright how much more your electricity bill will be? The reason why I say all the charging will be done at home is because there is no business or parking garage I know of that will let you plug in and charge your car for free. Anyway, just curious as to what the monthly electricity bill will be if you have to charge your car everyday.
04-29-08, 07:27 AM
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You should not call them oil companies they are energy companies, they are smart they know oil wont last forever and they have already invested billions into researching new viable energy sources. But yea oil is their primary product as of today. 30 years from now, who knows.
a hell of a lot cheaper than the monthly gas bill. $50/week will buy you a lot more electricity mileage than gas mileage. Plus its most beneficial to charge the vehicle on off peak hours, the charger has a built in clock where you can tell it when to charge. By charging it on off peak hours (guessing 10pm to early morning hours) you can get a cheaper kWh rate.
This electricity can come from anywhere, coal, gas turbine, solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc. Both non renewable and renewable. Gas can only come from oil which is non renewable
The question I still have is how much does it cost to charge these cars? Most if not all the charging will be done at home in your own garage. Anyone care to guess or know outright how much more your electricity bill will be? The reason why I say all the charging will be done at home is because there is no business or parking garage I know of that will let you plug in and charge your car for free. Anyway, just curious as to what the monthly electricity bill will be if you have to charge your car everyday.
This electricity can come from anywhere, coal, gas turbine, solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc. Both non renewable and renewable. Gas can only come from oil which is non renewable
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04-29-08, 06:59 PM
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a hell of a lot cheaper than the monthly gas bill. $50/week will buy you a lot more electricity mileage than gas mileage. Plus its most beneficial to charge the vehicle on off peak hours, the charger has a built in clock where you can tell it when to charge. By charging it on off peak hours (guessing 10pm to early morning hours) you can get a cheaper kWh rate.
This electricity can come from anywhere, coal, gas turbine, solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectric, etc. Both non renewable and renewable. Gas can only come from oil which is non renewable
04-29-08, 07:07 PM
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Here in State College they are taking about doing an experiment of installing screens in houses/apartments that tell you the current rate. Therefore at night when demand is down, you could see on the screen that it is cheaper to do a load of laundry.
05-04-08, 07:38 PM
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If that is the case I can see the hold up a bit, but I still have a hard time believe they cant find a way. There are already independent companies that convert ICE cars to full electric for customers that surely get more than 7 miles cruising range. How are they able to get around this patented technology blockade and not the large car manufacturers? They sell an all electric car called the Gem here in Hawaii that is really just a gloried golf cart IMHO, but it gets a few hundred miles cruising range on a charge.
Sadly, they're using Lead-Acid batteries for the conversion. A good start but not as efficient (both power, space and weight) as NiMH.
05-04-08, 07:39 PM
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The question I still have is how much does it cost to charge these cars? Most if not all the charging will be done at home in your own garage. Anyone care to guess or know outright how much more your electricity bill will be? The reason why I say all the charging will be done at home is because there is no business or parking garage I know of that will let you plug in and charge your car for free. Anyway, just curious as to what the monthly electricity bill will be if you have to charge your car everyday.
Of course it depends which state you're in I suppose. Here in BC, our electricity is hydropowered and is rather inexpensive so an EV would work well here. (We have some around campus actually)
05-07-08, 03:46 AM
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05-07-08, 12:11 PM
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the batteries were from Panasonic
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