Re: (ET) 36 to 14V

["Pieter Litchfield" <pieter_litch yahoo com>]

If your neighbor is using $10 per acre, at $4.00 per gallon he is using 2.5
gallons to mow 1 acre.  His mower must be broken to do this!  I mow 1/2 
acre
of flat lawn with a walk behind (push) gas mower that uses 1 qt of gas to 
do
the 1/2 acre, or about $1.00.  I also use a John Deere 4120 40HP diesel
utility tractor to mow meadow grasses, and I use 5 gallons per day, and mow
several acres per day with a brush hog rotary, a job that the ET just
doesn't have the power to do at all.  I would guess that the utility 
tractor
uses about 2 qts of diesel per acre.  This does not invalidate your point
about the cost of fuels, but I think the actual cost of gas & diesel usage
may be much lower than $10 per acre.

-----Original Message-----
From: PH [mailto:pholzsc yahoo com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2013 11:20 AM
To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu; Christopher Zach
Subject: Re: (ET) 36 to 14V

Hi Chris,
I agree the cost of ET ownership is very low.
According to my kill-a-watt, my E-185 uses on average about 1 or 2 kWh per
week or 10 to 20 cents.
My neighbor uses about $10 worth of gas just to mow his acre, versus my 20
cents for my 1.5 acre!

If the news got out about our ET's low cost, people might start sealing our
toys.

Happy plowing,
Paul Holzschuher
Lebanon Ohio
 


--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com> wrote:

> From: Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>
> Subject: Re: (ET) 36 to 14V
> To: elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 11:17 AM On 1/3/2013 10:04 AM, RJ 
> Kanary
> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >       My batteries will start
> their 13th year of service in April.At
> > less than $.07 per kWh,the cost to use and maintain the
> tractor during
> > the off-season is of little consequence.The nearly
> $500.00 spent on
> > the set has amortised out quite nicely.
> 
> You're funny. Since I use solar to charge the E20 (but not the E15; I 
> should set it up to charge on solar) I use pretty close to nothing to 
> run it.
> 
> Compare that to the 15.5hp Craftsman which I use to vacuum leaves and 
> such. I've had to fill the 2.5 gallon gas can
> *three* times this fall to get up all the leaves. Three trips to the 
> gas station, not to mention the cost of gas.
> 
> Doing that every week? Man life really must be lousy for those with 
> gas tractors. Takes half an hour to load up the gas can, put it in the 
> car, drive over, stand there pumping gas, put the cap back on, put it 
> back in the car, drive back, get home, etc...
> 
> What a pain.
> 
> 
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