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I looked at my electric bill. It's 10.5 cents per KWh using TVA power. We do a little better down here, but I think that cheap gas has always been the reason we can't get past it.
One thing that the Ilumini 7 guy stated that still worries me about battery-powered vehicles. To paraphrase, he said that when the batteries were new, the car could have gone nearly 200 miles in our kind of ride, but now that they're 5 years old, our ride was near the limit. They could have made it to about 160 he said. So if Li Ion battery replacements at five years is something like $1K, this wouldn't be a big deal, but costs being what they are to replace car batteries being more than the value of a 5-year-old electric car--now that's a problem! And to be forced between a choice of substantial reduction in range capability or spending thousands and thousands for batteries, I think we're still going to be stuck on petroleum-based fuels for a while longer.
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