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Old 05-24-2015, 01:38 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by redneck View Post
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Electricity is very cheap per kilowatt hour as compared to petroleum.

Charging a battery or using a block heater uses less than 10 cents per day.
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I think my knee jerk reaction was to agree with redneck, but then I was thinking that block heaters were close to even money. If a gallon of gas is worth 33.7kwh, and avg cost per kWh in the U.S. is $0.12, then it's like paying $4.04 for a gallon of electricity. So I figured the savings were in how inefficiently cars turn gas into electricity, but I don't know what the numbers are for that. can anyone fill in on the rest of the math?
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