We have a model 3, model S, and chevy volt. This is complete and utter nonsense. I'll take the bait...
"Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine."
This may be possible. EV range is highly variable depending on temperature, weather, and terrain. Want to drive uphill in -30 with your heater cranked into a headwind? That's going to cause you to use more energy. EV will always have lower range on a highway due to the aerodynamic forces. At 50mph HALF of the energy being spent is to overcome air resistance. In the city an EV will always exceed highway range due to very little air resistance at low speeds and recovering energy with regenerative braking.
"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 4.5 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."
A quick goggle search says that the Volt achieves 42 mpg (on gas only) so I'm not sure how he's getting 30mpg WITH electricity. Also if you had a vehicle that had 500km of range on gasoline and 60-80km on electric would you really sit there for 10 hours waiting for the battery to charge? Give me a break. The volt only has 4KW level 2 charging which is painfully slow for a road trip, that's why it has a ICE. It's also important to note that the Volt has an 18kWh battery pack that is software locked to stay between 20-80 percent charge. So you can only use 13.5kWh of the 18kWh 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 that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 Mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car costs about $25,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 plus. So the Canadian Government wants loyal Canadians not to do the math, but simply pay twice as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run, and takes three times longer to drive across the country. "
$0.20/kWh all in.
"Eric test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors and he writes, "For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine."
This may be possible. EV range is highly variable depending on temperature, weather, and terrain. Want to drive uphill in -30 with your heater cranked into a headwind? That's going to cause you to use more energy. EV will always have lower range on a highway due to the aerodynamic forces. At 50mph HALF of the energy being spent is to overcome air resistance. In the city an EV will always exceed highway range due to very little air resistance at low speeds and recovering energy with regenerative braking.
"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 4.5 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."
A quick goggle search says that the Volt achieves 42 mpg (on gas only) so I'm not sure how he's getting 30mpg WITH electricity. Also if you had a vehicle that had 500km of range on gasoline and 60-80km on electric would you really sit there for 10 hours waiting for the battery to charge? Give me a break. The volt only has 4KW level 2 charging which is painfully slow for a road trip, that's why it has a ICE. It's also important to note that the Volt has an 18kWh battery pack that is software locked to stay between 20-80 percent charge. So you can only use 13.5kWh of the 18kWh 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 that gets only 32 mpg. $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 Mpg = $0.10 per mile.
The gasoline powered car costs about $25,000 while the Volt costs $46,000 plus. So the Canadian Government wants loyal Canadians not to do the math, but simply pay twice as much for a car, that costs more than seven times as much to run, and takes three times longer to drive across the country. "
$0.20/kWh all in.
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