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- From: howard.smith@spacebbs.com (Howard Smith)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Electric Vehicle
- Message-ID: <4934.1017.uupcb@spacebbs.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:17:00 GMT
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- Organization: SPACE BBS - Menlo Park, CA - 10 Lines + 4gB - 415-323-4193
- Reply-To: howard.smith@spacebbs.com (Howard Smith)
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- CJL>Yes, he *DID* forget that EV's are about 50% efficient. If he'd added that
- CJL>in to his calculations, he'd've realized that the break-even price for
- CJL>gasoline is about $12.24/kWH. He *DID* take into account the fact that IC
- CJL>engines are only about 23% efficient. Next time, maybe you ought to take t
- CJL>time to read the post to which you're responding.
-
- Well, Carl, I have to admit that I haven't followed this thread as
- closely as I should have, but the numbers that Gary has come up with are
- are at such a variance with those that others have been claiming for
- EVs, including SoCalEd and LA Water and Power, that I felt compelled to
- say something.
-
- I will endeavor to retrieve the previous messages from all that swill
- about the toxicity of plutonium and check the numbers.
-
- OK?
-
- hhs
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