> How It Works section at Popular Science online www.popsci.com
> Tomorrow's Hybrid.I subscribe to snail mail Popular Science and snail
> mail Popular Mechanics magazines, been doing so for many, many
> years.Usually it takes those online magazines a few days to get their
> latest stuff online.
> cuhulin
One of my gripes about news features on new electric cars is that they
frequently give the milage per full charge, but not the energy content
per charge. So it is impossible to do a cost comparison with a
gasoline or Diesel car. We need to know how many kilowatt hours (or
Joules) per charge. If I know my electric rate (it appears each month
on my electric bill) I can see how much a full charge costs me. I know
what I pay for fuel (or play "what if" games) so can compare with a
high gas milage gasoline car. But without knowing how much
electricity a full charge represents, it is impossible to do the
comparison.
Scott Dorsey - 21 Mar 2008 15:40 GMT
>One of my gripes about news features on new electric cars is that they
>frequently give the milage per full charge, but not the energy content
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>electricity a full charge represents, it is impossible to do the
>comparison.
At BEST they will tell how long they take to charge... and you can assume
that they charge off a 20A 120V feed... but that isn't always a good assumption.
--scott

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z - 21 Mar 2008 22:03 GMT
On Mar 21, 10:18 am, Don Stauffer in Minnesota <stauf...@usfamily.net>
wrote:
> > How It Works section at Popular Science online www.popsci.com
> > Tomorrow's Hybrid.I subscribe to snail mail Popular Science and snail
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> electricity a full charge represents, it is impossible to do the
> comparison.
stumbled into this today: http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf by
don lancaster. we old computer farts may remember lancaster from back
in the dawn days when everything was possible with postscript and
such; from his current website, he still manages to be somewhat out of
the box, yet not out of his mind, which apparently these days is rare.