You pull up to a Vegan Restaurant in that car & the shallow, simple, silicone enhanced, smoking hot gals go crazy…I am all about saving the planet by driving an electric vehicle...
Your added electric bill would be nominal, about 1.50 per day....but you get the first 40 miles, about the typical drive for most Americans, free with the volt.....if you spend 120/month on gas that a savings of 1,440 per year...or about 6,000 for the lease of the car, about 6 years..the price for the volt after the tax rebate is 33,500
You pull up to a Vegan Restaurant in that car & the shallow, simple, silicone enhanced, smoking hot gals go crazy…I am all about saving the planet by driving an electric vehicle...
Now factor in a battery life span of 110,000 miles and a replacement cost of $10,000 and see how your numbers look.
you guys havent even touched on the disposal of batteries.
I did earlier.
At this point it isn't even about environmental conscientiousness as much as just being cheap as and leery of the oil market in the near future -- especially if you have enough acreage and the know-how to build and install some cheapo windmills (I know... sounds ridiculous, but search google) and/or invest in some solar cells and store the juice for your car or home.
I know this wouldn't work for everyone in the world, but here in the SW it's just wasteful to not exploit the 300+ days of sunshine and/or constant supply of wind in the plains. Money in your pocket.
I'll keep my small gas car, and my mid-size motorcycle
Actually, at the end of it's designed life cycle, the battery pack should have over 70% of it's capacity remaining. It will be suitable for industrial uses. That will offload the recycling for a few more years. Lithium is so relatively cheap right now, that there's not alot of interest in recycling them. Toxco, http://www.toxco.com/facilities.html is the only large company that does this.
I'm not going to begrudge anyone for attempting to eliminate their carbon footprint as much as possible.....battery prices are likely to decrease and disposal of these batteries will spark entrepreneurship!
Remember why they invented the catalytic converter?
They thought CO2 and water were harmless. Well, now we know that CO2, without which there would be no life, is a deadly gas.
Oh . I just exhaled some.
Has anyone mentioned that the Volt is a nice looking car?
I have an idea...stick a bag on your head and breathe in your own CO2 and lets see what happens...
Where did you get your $1.50? It takes about 100Kwh for a full charge. By my calculations I'm paying about 10.25 cents per Kwh.
Thats more like $10.25 to charge it to drive 40 miles or about 26 cents a mile.
By comparison, a gas car that gets 20mpg at 3.50 a gallon costs 17.5 cents a mile to fuel.
*note* I'm currently checking on that 100Kwh figure that I saw published.
from the Chevy site
ChevyElectricity is an extremely affordable way to power a car - the average American pays less than 12 cents per kilowatt hour. If the average American drives less than 40 miles, it will cost about $1.50 a day for electricity. That's about the same annual cost as running a common household appliance. To save even more, some utility companies recommend charging overnight for off-peak rates and may even offer incentives to customers who do so
You can argue efficiency & toxic batteries all you want CC…The Volt is going to make people in Los Angeles feel better about their carbon foot print…I kind of feel sorry for those polluting Prius owners...Hybrids are like soo yesterday…
How long would it take to recoup the 20K that this thing is overpriced?
I'm seeing estimates as low as 20Kwh and as high as 100Kwh. At 20 thats just a little over $2.00 or 5 cents a mile for the first 40. (of course adding 10 cents a mile for prorated battery pack cost evens things out significantly)
What do I care what the reasoning is that first adopters use to justify a 45k car? Let them adopt and make things better and cheaper for us poor saps. Oh and BTW darrin, people have been driving 45k cars for ages at least this one has a purpose other than ego (not saying ego isnt part of this, but it does have a whole OTHER purpose too).
I don't care what people pay for a car, but THAT car is not worthy of 45K, IMO.
Well, the free market will decide whether it's worth it or not.
i read in the news, theres talk about installing these used battery packs into homes and , where they can just charge up during the day and use at night...
Well, it's not entirely a free market with the tax credit.
I can't think of a reason to buy any car for 45k, at least this one does something that the others don't.
You know what I meant. Either people will think this is a good deal for 35K or whatever it costs after the rebate, or they won't. Time will tell.
Or taxpayer money subsidizing Detroit for the past 30 years.
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