Comment 6301

By liveoilfree (registered) - website | Posted April 11, 2007 at 10:59:16

The EV1 was, in fact, a great car. Used in conjunction with Solar rooftop power, the combination of "EV-PV" allows you to live essentially "oil-free".

Solar rooftop power lowers the daily peak usage and helps avoid brownouts, also gaining credit for the solar homeowner for later off-peak charging.

One typical solar home produces up to 30 kWh per day. Using "time of use" tariffs, that gives credit for up to 120 kWh that can be applied to night time off-peak slow charging of a plug-in Electric car.

But even just at 30 kWh, the home uses 15 kWh, and 15 is left for charging the Electric car.

15 kWh powers the Toyota RAV4-EV for 45 to 60 miles, or up to 2000 miles per month.

Hence, with rooftop solar power and plug-in cars, you can generally avoid gas stations, and live essentially "oil-free".

And each kWh that you use to avoid gas purchases powers the EV up to 4 miles, which, at 25 cents per mile, is worth up to $1.

Avoiding gas purchases for 160,000 miles of EV driving, we avoided buying 8,000 gallons of gas (and no oil changes, no smog checks, no tune-ups, no engine or drive-train repairs, almost no brake wear) which is worth at least $16,000 (at only $2/gallon).

So we paid for our solar rooftop system JUST FROM AVOIDED GASOLINE PURCHASES.

That's why Chevron and GM worked together to kill the Electric car: Chevron for obvious resons (if the price of oil were related to the cost of production, it would be about $6/bbl) and GM because the EV does not need repairs, it threatens the dealer network.

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