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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (11150)7/13/2009 9:32:32 AM
From: RetiredNow1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 86355
 
Brumar, great point. Now you are thinking like a statistician. So what you want is not an average distance car, but a car that can go the average plus 3 sigma. That would capture 99% of drivers. I haven't calculated what that would be. However, the VOLT is just such a car. It allows you to go 40 miles on one charge, but then another 600 miles when the engine kicks in when the battery is low. That's a total of around 640 miles, which is double the distance of a car on the road today. That means that a VOLT gets somewhere around 150 mpg on average. Not bad at all and enough for the US to become close to oil independent if everyone drove one.

Is that enough for you or do you think we're still in the age when it's a choice between an electric car or a horse and buggy?
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