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Originally Posted by MarchHare
How many kWh of electricity does it take to fully charge the battery? Will the amount you save on gasoline purchases offset your increased power bill?
From an environmental angle, if you're living in an area where your electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels such as coal, will driving this vehicle increase or decrease your carbon footprint?
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I read 8 kWh, which is about $0.60 worth of power in Calgary (EasyMax). For Alberta, 8 kWh is about 6-7 kg of GHG (Alberta grid intensity is just under 0.8 tonnes/MWh.) Gasoline has about 9 kg of GHG per US gallon, so you'd need something like 80 mpg in city driving from a gas vehicle for it to be cleaner in AB (and Alberta has among the most carbon intensive grids in NA).
If you compare costs to a typical gas car in the city, you are paying something like $0.15/L for fuel. If you drive 20,000 km per year, you'd save something in the neighborhood of $3000/yr assuming it was all city driving and you used no gasoline.