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Originally Posted by sammyg2
This is a direct quote form GM's own volt FAQ website:
Chevy Volt FAQs | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site
So if you drive 40 miles on the battery and then one mile on gas, you'd get great mileage. but if you drove 40 miles on the battery and then used up the 9 gallon tank at 35 mpg you'd have a total range of 355 miles, at 39 mpg.
At $3 gallon, that's a cost of 16 cents per mile just for fuel.
It's not unsual for a prius to get 46 mpg real world, that's a cost of 15 cents per mile for fuel. Now if you only drive 30 miles a day, it'd save you money. But you'd give up a heck of alot of performance. And it takes 10 hours to re-charge it.
That's not very good for a $41,000 econo box.
The prius outperforms it in every way and costs much less.
And Mike, your facts were spot on. |
Agree with all, but we need to look at total life-cycle cost.
It take more energy to build a Hybrid car and even more energy to build an all electric car. This is shown in the higher cost of the vehicle.
Looking at the total lifecycle cost of a Honda Civic at $15K vs. the Hybrid version, we find that while the Hybrid will save energy in post purchase terms, it will never pay for itself in total lifecycle cost. The obvious exception is where the price of the fuel is set by government fiat and not market forces.