On 24 May 2005 09:37:57 -0700, "BobG" <bobgardner@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>Anyone know a number for cost per mile for a typical small car over 10
>years, incl cost, insurance, repairs, oil, gas? I ran some numbers and
>came up with 32 cents a mile. I used 60 mi a day/ 1 hr a day. Then I
>ran similar numbers on an electric vehicle with a 30KWHr battery pack,
>same 60 mi 1 hr a day, included numbers for replace battery pack
>several times in the 10 yr life, use 12 cents/KWHr to compute cost/mi,
>got 16 cents/mi. So EV cost per mile is half what a car is? Sounds like
>a win. Somebody build one!
Did you amortize the initial costs of each car?
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