Verge wrote on Aug 13
th, 2012 at 11:06am:
An electric car has a range of say, 150kms.
How many KW of electricity is needed to charge the batteries in order to achieve that?
Hi Verge,
only the manufacturers could give you a rough estimate of this value.
It would depend on many variables including:
the weight of the car
the amount of head winds
the number of stops & starts
the speed of the car as higher speeds would be less efficient
Maybe you could pick a particular electric vehicle &
do some research to tell everyone?
Of more interest is the cost of the energy:
One thing for sure -
Nail is right - as usual -
it would be a lot less than the price of petrol in a normal car.
I heard figures of about $1 to $3 per day to run an electric car from most people
who just drive half an hour to work & back every day.
Of course
the cost is $0 if you have solar electric cells on the roof of your
house & charge the grid during the day & recharge your battery at night especially with a high feed in tariff.
Hope that helps Verge?