[Restorer]

If I remember another article correctly, it said that the car could be fully recharged "in as little as 2.5 hours." This requiires a 230v circuit, although it didn't have any info on the amps needed.

Despite trying to track it down, I've been unable to find out how many KWH it takes to recharge a fully-discharged car.

If you have this number, you could figure the approximate cost per mile at different electricity prices. Which would seem to be pretty relevant information.

Evan at a relatively low 20 mpg, $3 gas translates to only .15/mile. It seems odd to me that Americans who think nothing of spending $5 for a cup of coffee and $15 every day for lunch are horrified by spending .15 to transport themselves a mile in a 2-ton luxury vehicle.

[cousin01]

Lets say the 135 kW motor can run the car 250 miles in 5 hours. that's 635 kWh. My recent electric bill was for 689 kWh at $66.89. Close enough. That's 27 cents per mile. Now add in the non recurring charges on my bill and its north of 30 cents.

Then there is the fact that no electric generator is 100% efficient, and then no charger is 100% efficient and we're probably at 35 to 40 cents per mile.

Probably more that Arnold's hummer!

Oh, and unless you build nuclear plants, you need fossil fuel to generate all of that electricity.

Looks like those investors were looking for a politically correct write-off.

[RipSawyer]

Evan at a relatively low 20 mpg, $3 gas translates to only .15/mile. It seems odd to me that Americans who think nothing of spending $5 for a cup of coffee and $15 every day for lunch are horrified by spending .15 to transport themselves a mile in a 2-ton luxury vehicle.
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It is a little hard to understand, I know I don't like spending eighty dollars to fuel my pickup but I never went to the extreme that some do. Back when gasoline was forty cents a gallon I saw some who had convinced themselves that they were saving enough on gasoline to make the payments on their new car. Of course it was mathematically impossible but they believed it nevertheless.