Ivan's winter transportation is his '95 Nissan pick-up truck (2.4L 4 cylinder, 5-speed). He's grumbled a bit about the price of fuel lately (about a buck a litre).
It's getting about 25 mpg (US) on the highway. He hasn't figured out his city economy, but let's be generous and say he's getting 19 mpg.
So I made him a little chart to show him the price differential - based only on energy costs - of driving the truck in town vs. driving the ForkenSwift:
- A few posts back we saw that the FS is costing about $0.02/km at the standard grid rate of $0.06 / kWh (which Ivan uses at his place).
- Ivan's truck: 19 mpg (US) in the city = 8.1 km/L, and @ $1/litre, he's spending about $0.12/km.