If you use a hybrid electric car, will your electricity bill go WAY up when you charge your car?
April 10, 2009 in Alternative Fuel Vehicles
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monkey questioned:
I’m wondering if the cost of your electriciy bill will go up a lot when you start charging your new hybrid car (such as a Prius)? Does it completely offset the MPG savings in gasoline? Do you break even? Does it cost MORE in electricity?
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Really, you don’t plug in a Prius. It charges on its own.
Here are no plug-in hybrids unfilled right now. All hybrids give a new lease of life the batteries while driving via innumerable methods like regenerative braking.
Eventually here will be plug-in hybrids (such as the Chevy Volt and plug-in translation of the Prius), but they won’t boost your gripping bill too drastically. Gripping cars and plug-in hybrids cost about 2 cents per mile to give a new lease of life. Cars that run decently on gasoline cost on the order of 10 cents per mile to refuel (for gas at $3/gallon).
In additional words, your gripping bill will go up (by about $20/month if you handbook 1000 miles per month), but your total fueling bill will be cut by 80%.
No. BUt if you have solar panels it doesnt matter!!
The bill is held to be (way) less than the amount of gas it would take. Coal (used to make the electricity) expenditure less than oil (used to make gas). Nuclear, wind, etc. competes with coal.
Hybrid electrics don’t get plugged in.
Hybrids use an gripping motor that’s bolted in between the engine and transmissoin. All owing to acceleration it helps the car get up to speed. When braking the polarity of the magnets are reversed, turning the gripping element into a generator and assisting with the braking of the vehicle. So when you slow down it is re-charging the battery pack.
Hybrids don’t get exciting via a plug.
it expenditure about 6 cents now for 4 hours of gripping, then you can always glue a solar panel to your home for recharging along with a take along one for when you park
Most if not all hybrid cars are re-generated by the gas burning thrust engine itself and the braking logic. Not a plug in here
Normally you don’t plug in a Prius, even if a few have been converted into plug-ins. At any rate, if you were to plug in an gripping vehicle to payment it, plug it in overnight. Electricity expenditure 3x less at off-peak hours, like at night (when here is less demand).