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Are electric cars worth the price?
While electric cars are expensive and can double your energy bill when re-charging at home, many early adopters say they're still worth the price, since they help the environment and reduce the need for foreign oil.
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Engineer
Feb 11 2012 at 9:52 AM
The reasons why smart people do not buy Electric or Hybrid cars are: Batteries are expensive, short lived, efficiency isn’t 100 % and the electricity is not free. Going electric you won’t decrease Air Pollution because 50 % of the electricity is produced by burning COAL. By the way a Jetta Diesel, TDI for $23000 makes 40MPG. With a full tank of Chevy Volt, driving non-stop, you make 37MPG, plus $3 or more, the price of electricity you charged 16.0-kW-hr lithium-ion, the hefty 750-pound battery
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