160 MPG Volvo ReCharge car

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

On Mar 20, 10:43 am, wrote:
> 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.

Don Stauffer in Minnesota > wrote:
>
>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.

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
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

On Mar 21, 10:18*am, Don Stauffer in Minnesota >
wrote:
> On Mar 20, 10:43 am, wrote:
>
> > 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.

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.