Re: (ET) Electricity cost

[Rod Hower <rodhower ameritech net>]

Chris,
How do you spend $0.
You must have solar cells for recharge.
The gas powered mower is VERY inefficient.
My Dodge TEVan Caravan electric is about 60% the cost
of a gas powered Caravan.
My electric E15 is probably 30% the cost of a gas
powered mower to operate.
0% cost? you either have solar cells or have been
talking to Doug Littlefield :-)
Rod
hower.iwarp.com/photo.html

Christopher Zach wrote:
> My E20 costs $0.00 to operate; just another data point :-)
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Alburty" <wilbett earthlink net>
> To: "elek-trac Discussion group" <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:47 AM
> Subject: (ET) Electricity cost
>
>
>
> >    People have asked how much electricity my E12 uses, how much it costs
>
> to
>
> > operate it. I decided to make a measurement to see. You all might be
>
> interested.
>
> >    My 1-year old T125 batteries were probably something like 85% charged
>
> when I
>
> > put an ammeter in series with the charger plug. Initially, it drew about 9
>
> amps.
>
> > After 2 minutes it was around 5 amps. Several minutes later it had
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> stabilized at
>
> > 4.05 amps. The voltage was 117.7 VAC..
> >    That's 476.685 watts. In 8 hours that would be 3.813 kwh. In my town,
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> they
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> > charge us about $.07 per kwh, or 27 cents for that much electricity.  I'm
> > supposedly able to mow 3 acres on a full charge. My 8 hp gas mower uses
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> about
>
> > $1.10 worth of gasoline to do my one acre. So, energy wise, the
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> operational cost,
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> > at the point of use, is about 12 times higher for gasoline burners. Tell
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> that to
>
> > your gas burning neighbor.
> >    I'll try this again sometime when the batteries are fully discharged
>
> to see
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> > how much more the cost would be (probably not much), but this give us an
>
> idea of
>
> > it.
> >
> > Bill