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RE: ...really?
By Schrag4 on 4/12/2012 4:04:49 PM , Rating: 2
...and that's just for the one-time cost to install a charging station. What about the added electricity costs due to losses? Are people who switch to an EV to save money on fuel really willing to increase their electricity consumption 25 or 50 percent for this convenience? I don't know what the actual losses will be, but I bet 25 percent isn't high...

RE: ...really?
By Mint on 4/12/2012 5:04:10 PM , Rating: 2
90% is perfectly doable with wireless transfer for the geometries involved. I've done it myself in my research on biomedical implants. As I mentioned above, $30/yr is the price of the efficiency loss: 10k miles / 3.3 miles/kWh * $0.10/kWh = $30. Adjust it to $40 or $50 if you want with different assumptions.

RE: ...really?
By Motoman on 4/14/2012 1:30:46 PM , Rating: 2
90% effeciency would be a catastrophe.

How many EV cars do you want to sell?

Let's say 1 million of them get sold to drivers in NYC.

Let's go with the low end of your estimate, and guess that $30 is lost per car per year.

There's $30 million in utterly wasted electricity per year, in one city. Electricity that was generated, transmitted, came to your house, and which you then threw away because you're too GD lazy to plug your car in.

Yeah. Great reasoning there.

RE: ...really?
By Mint on 4/16/2012 8:46:44 AM , Rating: 2
Why stop at that convenience? Why not outlaw dryers? People could use clothes lines. Why not outlaw 70 degree heating/ac? Un the winter, people could just wear jackets indoors and lower it to 60 degrees, while letting get to 80 degrees in the summer.

Those million EVs will cost $30B+ to build, and divert $1B/year in gas usage. If buyers want to spend 0.1% of their investment per year to make it a little more convenient, then let them.

