California supercharging prices = $6.74 per "gallon" - me do math wrong?

[deonb]

So mpge has been covered, but the other side to this is that the 33.7kWh inside a gallon of gas is not 33.7kWh of ELECTRICITY. It's 33.7kWh of ENERGY.

There isn't a known process on the planet that can extract much more than about 16kWh of electricity out of it.

The ICE engine is a special case of this, but its not like Tesla can buy a gallon of gas for $3.00, run it through some magical power plant and get 33.7kWh of electricity that they can sell to you at $6.00. They will at most be able to harvest half of it ... which is what the market price for electricity is based on.

 

[SageBrush]

But why would you? The only consideration that matters is: how much more is my electricity bill if I regularly charge my car vs if I had an ICE car?

That's the real operating cost of it.

An analogy would be EV cost. Say the manufacturer charges $35k and the gov forks out a $5k rebate. How much does the car cost ? You are probably tempted to say $30k ... until you get your tax bill.

 

[calisnow]

...Between that and supercharging, 200K miles in a car that has the power of similar cars that only get 20 MPG will save $30K alone in gas assuming I had to buy premium fuel for a 500+ hp ICE car equivalent over the same 200K miles.

Which is exactly what I was doing - only my SUV and sedan weren't getting 20 mpg - they were getting 14 mpg on 91 octane at California prices. Ouch...

 

[AMPd]

Which is exactly what I was doing - only my SUV and sedan weren't getting 20 mpg - they were getting 14 mpg on 91 octane at California prices. Ouch...

I was wondering why LA was not as polluted as the last time I visited!