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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (646)7/9/2008 8:41:11 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
The ongoing cost per mile of an electric car is 1 cent.

But the fixed cost of an electric car is greater because of its batteries, and lower range, and longer times to "fill up" are also serious costs to most people, at least if they are trying to run an electric as their only car.

The fixes cost differential is not simply a matter of economies of scale. Absent a breakthrough in technology, electric cars with similar characteristics to gasoline powered cars (except for range, and "refill" time which would probably have to remain disadvantages for the electric car) would almost certainly be more expensive even if 50% of the fleet was electric vehicles.
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