Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel's Follow the Money) test drove the
Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.
For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine. Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery. So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles. It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.
According to General Motors, the Volt battery holds 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery. The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.
I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons) $1.16 per kwh.
16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.
$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.
Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine only that gets 32 mpg.
$3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.
$3.75 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.12 per mile.
The gasoline powered car cost about $15,000 while the Volt costs $46,000.
So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more that 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.
REALLY? I say "drill here - drill now". This is nuts, but people have bought them.
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5 comments:
I don't disagree with the main point of this post, however the math is WAY off. It says he's paying $1.16 per kwh whereas almost the entire US pays between 6 and 12 CENTS per kwh. He has overstated his electric cost by at least a factor of 10.
Not only that ($1.16/kwh? Really?), this is a very obviously biased article out to rip down the Volt instead of giving it a fair analysis... 25 miles? Really? All the reviews I've read generally make it to around 35 at least, if not 40. He must have laid hard on the accelerator to keep the efficiency down.
1:30, these people have been creating mythical stories then introducing them as true to life narratives to back their platform for awhile now. It's the new form of reality entertainment for them.
1:13 is correct, no one in the US pays $1.16 per Kwh. The author must have meant 11.6 cents per Kwh. Regardless of the fuzzy math, the Volt will be history very soon, since no one is buying them.
If you want a decent electric vehicle you have to build it yourself. Ever since 1903, there has been a fix in for killing electric vehicles by the petro industry and government. Just think of ALL the electric trollies that were legislated out of use in the early part of the 1900s.
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