Dream of a special Toyota Prius

On Oct 2, 4:56 am, Trinity Of Matrix wrote: > I have a dream how the perfect Toyota Prius would look like: > - Plug-in possibility to plug to the home elecrical power network. > - Solarcells on the roof charging automatically up the batteries > - liquefied gas motor or at least Turbo Diesel >

Why would you want to plug in the car? From 'online conversion"

In southern CA we pay 24 cents / kWh which works out to $8.78 for the equivalent of 1 gallon gas when I can get that for $2.85. Doesn't seen like a good trade to me -- combined with taking hours to 'fill up'

GG

snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com schrieb:

I don't live in the US, I live in Europe. And in Europe you can multiply the price of the US gas by 3. So currently gas with 95 octan costs here about 1,38 EUR per Liter (don't know how much gallon it does).

So electricity is not expensiver than gas (I think its cheaper) and cleaner.

Something I'd never thought how much more economic sense plug-in makes in Europe versus the USA. Yet we're seeing more of that in the States . . . or I've not been seeing much in our media.

Bob Wilson

The original poster failed to take into account the relative efficiency of the internal combustion engine (15-20%) and the electric motor (95%).