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Old 04-08-2012, 08:32 PM   #26 (permalink)
turbotomass
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Originally Posted by steffen707 View Post
Actually i got bored and tried the other calculation. If it cost me $0.10 to charge up the battery and gas costs $4 per gallon. I could have bought .025 gallons of gas, at 45mpg I could have driven 1.125 miles. Divide that by my increase in gas mileage of 4% of 45mpg is 1.8. Which is .625gallons at 45mpg is 28 miles. So as long as I drove 28 miles that $0.10 cent charging cost was worth it.

I know I drove at least 70 miles, so i'm ahead, right?
so then your able to go 70 miles on a fully charged battery without an alternator?

you still have to take into consideration paying off the deep cycle battery. by any chance did you buy the highest reserve capacity battery you could fit in the car?
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