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Old 12-01-2008, 05:46 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MazdaMatt View Post
novel that they are doing this, but yeah, that price tag is hefty. But really, we can't comment on the price/savings factor because mass market hybrids are still for rich hippies.
For today and next year, I completely agree with you. They estimate it costs about $1/gallon equivelent to charge off the grid. A Prius uses ~50mpg and $2/gal gas, the miles driven payoff is 500k miles. Even if you charged the battery for $0.00., you'd need to drive 250k miles. A few months ago ($4/gal gas) 125k miles. I hate to say this but it only starts to get attractive at say, $11/gallon gas, the break even point is 50k miles.

When I used to talk with my grandma, born in 1908, we'd laugh about when she was a young girl growing up in Kentucky, automobiles where incrediably expensive and were veiwed as play toys for the rich, having no practicle use what so ever More-or -ess the samething with computers and cell phones in my lifetime. I hope to see electricity do the same thing one day.
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