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Originally Posted by Guest
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A barrel of oil has 1667 kilowatt-hours of power
My last electric bill was 555 kilowatt-hour
My entire house can run for 3 months on the energy from ONE barrel of oil. That cost me $60.
How much would the batteries cost that could run my house 24/7 for 3 months? What would be the ENERGY cost to "charge them up"? MORE than they discharged because batteries are NOT 100% efficient.
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You have too many ideas which are confusing your thoughts. If you are going to buy a car and one saves you $2 for every 30 miles what you want to know is how much is that over the life of the car. For a car that lasts 150,000 miles the savings would be 150,000 divided by 30 times $2. The answer is $10,000. Efficiency of the battery has nothing to do with this calculation, the energy stored in a gallon of gas has nothing to do with this calculation. The thing you care about is what does it cost to drive to the store. If gasoline goes up to $5 a gallon your savings would be $20,000 over the life of the car and now it is price competitive. When the cost of the battery drops $10,000 EV's will be price competitive. None of this has anything to do with your pseudo science and you don't need to know science to decide which type of car is cheaper.