Check out this video link: http://www.youtube.com/watchv=XdRS7eVVZbU Electric motors in the wheels appear to be the most efficient for hybrid automobiles. the installing of electric motors in the wheels (Hub Motors) not only make for much more room but allows for the placement of a small motorcycle engine to charge the batteries and is a superior way to go. This motorcycle engine is not intended to drive at freeway speeds but to provide enough horsepower for the battery charges . The batteries will take you down the road at freeway plus speeds. You need not be a rocket scientist to figure this out. All you need is to install an engine that gets 100 plus miles per gallon and, like the Toyota Prius plug in, or like the Toyota Spirit of D.C. that gets 100 miles to the gallon. The installation of a 5 gallon tank will allow you to travel a minimum of 500 miles before you have to plug in or get more gas. YOU SAY,”IT COSTS ME TOO MUCH MONEY TO BUY ONE OF THESE MACHINES.” I contacted a college statistician and he calculated the following: 1. A 25 year old today will drive for a minimum of 25 years and travel 1,876,875 miles. 2. At a price of 15 cents per mile, they will spend: $281,531.00. That’s for gas only and does not include parts, repairs, oil changes or car replacement purchases. 3. The current cost per mile of an all electric plug-in is 2 cents or a cost for that time: $ 37,537.00 4. This total of a saving to you of $243,993.00 5. A plug-in hybrid that gets 100 miles to the gallon will cost: $ 4.8 cents per mile, or a total of $90,090.00: Savings : $191,441.00.
EVEN AT A PURCHASE PRICE OF 40 OR 50 THOUSAND THE OVER ALL SAVINGS ARE GREAT.
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December 12th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Check out the Global Investment Watch blog to see good article on growing dependency on lithium to produce electric cars…
http://globalinvestmentwatch.com/2008/11/25/lithium-electric-cars-and-the-future-of-transport/
December 12th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Hello,
That was an interesting article. Many people who convert choose to use other batteries like lead acid or others. Lithium ion is mostly used in commercial hybrid electric cars, but perhaps that will change. We will have to see.
June 22nd, 2009 at 8:40 pm
I like your thought process however you leave out the life span of the batteries and the cost of replacment. To expect an electric car of today to go 25 years without replacment of the car let alone the batteries is unreasonable at the least. It is generalazations like this that turn off the main stream people that visit these sites. Please have your statistition do the same comparison with a $20,000
gas fueled car vs a $50,000 electric car and a 5 year life span and include residual value of the vehicles. You will still get a nice savings and show that electric is the way to go. This is how we get the main stream to stop looking at us like we are a bunch of zelots living in never never land. I am a business man. I know how to do a return on investment analisys (even if I cannot spell)
Never appeal to a person’s better nature. They may not have one. Appeal to their educated self interest and you will win every time.
“If we do not teach our childeren how to think for themselves someone else will teach them what to think for himself”.
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