BMW...All cars to be electric in a decade..

[Perfectlap]

^$30 a month increase in electric bill to charge a car?
My electric bill nearly tripled this summer just to run my portable AC unit overnight! And I still had to pay for gas in my car. If I had a way of charging I'd be all over a leaf at those prices.

[Porsche9]

Don't forget the 220v charger.

How To Get the Best Home Charger for Your Plug-In Car | Edmunds.com

[leftfield6]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

^$30 a month increase in electric bill to charge a car?
My electric bill nearly tripled this summer just to run my portable AC unit overnight! And I still had to pay for gas in my car. If I had a way of charging I'd be all over a leaf at those prices.

Yeah, I'm not 100% sure he is giving me an accurate expectation at $30. It was kind of a casual comment so I don't think he had really done due diligence in arriving at that number.

Regardless, even it its triple that, the cost savings over my current daily drivers mpg of 15.4 would be significant.

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

^$30 a month increase in electric bill to charge a car?
My electric bill nearly tripled this summer just to run my portable AC unit overnight! And I still had to pay for gas in my car. If I had a way of charging I'd be all over a leaf at those prices.

go solar!

We put solar on the house in Dec 2013 and it cut my electric bill more the 50%

[jdlmodelt]

Ummmm.............I live on a cattle ranch/farm. We haul the cattle to pasture every summer, use multiple tractors to work the fields, 3/4 ton and 1 ton pickups and trailers to haul cattle and sheep from place to place, we contract large semi tractor trailers to haul the live stock, we used multiple tractors all year round to harvest hay and feed hay....no amount of batteries on all that equipment will work....you can't expect all the small farmers and ranchers such as us to be able to buy some new state of the art tractors and trucks to replace the gasoline and diesel that we use now. Unless you are in favor of ousting small business in favor of large corporate or government run farms/ranches. I also live 45 miles from the town that has all the cattle supplies, some materials have to be hauled in a 1 ton pickup or larger, so....for us, it won't work out very soon, certainly not in 10 years.