Posted on 11/26/2015 10:36:45 AM PST by #1CTYankee
I had a two-mile commute to work for a few years. I changed from my Chevy Avalanche to a Toyota Camry Hybrid and let the gas savings roll in. Something like $75/month in gas to about $20. Now that I have a much longer commute, I’m saving even more.
Range is important to me. Also winter performance. The colder it gets the less power or sustaining power. Same holds true in extremely hot weather too.
I have two retired friends who own Chevy Volts and they love them......
We have a hybrid (Honda Civic with all the high-end trim packages and retrofitted with Honda fog lights in place of the day-time running lights that are standard). It makes sense — saves lots of money on gas.
Electric-only makes no sense here in the Great Plains. If I lived in an urbanized area and had a petroleum powered vehicle suitable for long distance trips, I’d certainly look at an electric-only vehicle for commuting.
When green and cheap coincide, go green. The problem is leftists and deluded urbanites who even if not leftist fancy that what makes sense in densely populated areas is a universal good pushing them on everyone.
Definitely not a babe magnet tho.........
Her work is at 650 ft.
She uses 0 miles in the Getting there but 6 comming home.
The total energy use of an electric car gas has to include the generation of electricity. Factor that in and get back to me with the numbers.
When you’re retired, not much is a babe magnet.
Maybe having all your own teeth... ;)
Butt ugly but it's really a nice car.
I got her a magnetic bumper sticker that says:
Yeah:
It's a clown car .
Thanks for your post sage, appreciated.
If electricity is 12 cents per kWh -the national average - it would cost $3.48 to go 100 miles. Another way to calculate cost is to use the number of kilowatt-hours it takes to recharge the EV’s battery. If an EV requires 20 kWh to fully recharge and the rate is 12 cents per kWh, that’s $2.40 to “fill up” the car.
Actually his community collage experience will be limited, he wants to follow his uncle’s foot steps in running heavy equipment
Yep, and they're all paid for.........
I don’t know. There are plenty of plated golf carts around Surprise, Az though.
>>>there is no subsidies on used cars<<<
I was referring to new ones but I guess I wasn’t clear.
Looks like you got a great deal for such a low mileage car.
Same Range as a Nissan Leaf but for a lot less money used.
Here in CA a used Nissan Leaf still costs a lot of money.
Good luck with the Car. Happy Thanksgiving.
+1
Looking for a new car?
If the advertisement says,
“Loads of Personality,”
no man should be caught dead in it.
I commute 40 miles a day and live in a state where it often gets below zero. That 62 mile range would not not get me reliably to and from work as I would need to use the lights, defroster, heater and wipers many days and at below zero temperatures that battery has no where near a 62 mile range. With a 6 mile commute and a milder climate the electric car might work great. I noted the rather large depreciation. In three years the vehicle goes from a $28K sticker price to a $7.7K market value. That says a lot about market value for electric cars
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