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Originally Posted by Guest
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.
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ANOTHER tangent...
No...YOU care what it costs in DOLLARS...I'm talking about ENERGY cost...HOW MUCH ENERGY DID IT TAKE TO MAKE THE BATTERIES...your battery car costs/requires multiples MORE in ENERGY costs (energy USED) to manufacture and keep charged.
If "gas" goes up to $5 a gallon...the dollar COST of your batteries WILL go up too, the dollar COST of charging them WILL go up too.
It IS a "zero sum" equation. As oil goes up...everything goes up with it. Because there is NOTHING that can replace oil right now.
I'm done...maybe someone else can explain it to you...have a good new year.