Re: 100mpg car is now operational


Bret Cahill wrote:
I assume it gets plugged in to recharge, right? Got any cost per mile
figures including electricity? I bet its within 10% of the cost per
mile of a car of similar weight and engine power.

It's a big difference in city driving.

Perhaps using day time electricity compared to a very efficient car
running fueled in America. In Europe:

Fuel costs are 12p per mile for an
average large car (1.5 ton, mid size in America). That comes to about
£8 per 100km. Some cars do much better - can probably get £3-4 per
100km (say 4l / 100km @ 95p per litre = £3.80). Similar to your figure
above - but with a more efficient car paying much more for petrol.

Electric cars use about 10KWHrs per ton per 100km in urban driving.
Including conversion losses, that means buying about 14KWhrs of
electricity at a night time rate of 3p per KWhr. That's less than 50p.

If you had to fill up at 10p / KWHr it would cost you £1.40, which is
about the
pretax cost of the fuel.

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