Why do the auto manu not include the fuel needed to charge the electric cars in their MPG? That has to count.

Question

We use fuel to generate electricty and to send it to the charger so that should be calculated in the MPG since they are using the battery power to rack up the miles. The fuel used to charge the battery should be counted as well.

Answer 1

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There are two answers to this question - first, in a hybrid car, the fuel both powers the car directly, and also charges the batteries. Since the fuel is responsible for all the miles the car runs, the mileage figure should indeed reflect the correct miles per gallon.
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The second part, calculating miles per gallon in a plug-in hybrid or a pure electic car is more complicated, since we now have miles not provided by gasoline. But there is fuel involved (at the powerplant) so there should be a way to get an idea of the amount involved.
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The easiest way to approximate this is by fuel cost. After all, you will wind up paying for fuel, no matter how it gets to you. First, let's look at gasoline. The typical driver puts about 15,000 miles per year on his car. This works out to 1250 miles per month.
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If this driver's car gets 20 miles per gallon, this represents 62.5 gallons of gasoline. Using $3.20/gallon (about the price we paid this past summer, and I think it will get back there), our typical driver spends about $200 on gasoline every month.
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An electric car uses kilowatt-hours (KWH) of electricity instead of gasoline. Typically our EV might get from 3 to 7 miles per KWH. So, for this example, we'll use 4 miles/KWH. In my city, there is a special EV electric rate of just 3 cents/KWH. But in other places, the electric rate could be 10 cents or higher per KWH. So let's use 6 cents.
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Using these numbers, the same 1250 miles per month - that cost our typical driver $200 for gasoline - only costs $18.75 in electricity for our electric car. The electric "fuel" only costs about 10% of what gasoline does!
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So, using this method, we can approximate that miles driven on electricity are worth 10 times the mileage of miles driven on gasoline. (There are other ways to calculate this, but EV mileage is at least 5 times better, and from a money standpoint, as we have seen, up to 10 times better.)
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Why is electric power so much cheaper than gasoline? There are two reasons. The first is that electric motors are far more efficient than gasoline engines, so EVs can drive much further on less fuel. The second reason is fuel transportation costs. The electric car fuels by wire (the electric grid is 95% efficient.) By contrast, your gas car requires a vast fuel transportation infrastructure that ships, pipes, and trucks gasoline around the country. The price of this infrastructure is built in to the price of gasoline.
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This is also the reason electric cars pollute much less. Even when dirty fuel is burned at the powerplant, the vast improvement in energy efficiency of electric vehicles means far less pollution per mile.
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SEE REFERENCES BELOW FOR THE NUMBERS I USED.
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Answer 2

You'd additionally must mine the steel ores and get oil to provide plastics and power for the producing. The handiest means an electrical vehicle is 'inexperienced', is whether it is charged off renewable power assets, similar to sun, wind and so forth. Again wind generators and sun panels must be placed in combination someplace. Wind generators are a functional layout, metalwork fabrication, however sun panels comprise silica, dug from the earth. The factor is, that when you made the sun panels or wind turbine, they do not devour oil, fuel or coal to provide vigor.In that means it's serving to the atmosphere. For a hybrid vehicle to be real 'inexperienced', you must use bio-fuels produced utilizing renewable power or (if a diesel) devour recycled vegetable oils both as through a instantly vegetable oil conversion or (with just a little elementary chemistry) as bio-diesel, that is chemically the identical because the oil derived variation and can paintings in any diesel engine, new or ancient, with out adjustments, similar to gasoline line/tank warmers. One factor to recall, is that the battery percent might put on out or malfunction earlier than the tip of its existence, so comprises chemical compounds that could want transporting to be recycled. My alternative could be a ordinary diesel vehicle. In natural MPG phrases, they don't seem to be a long way off what a hybrid can go back, and not using a issues approximately battery packs now not lasting so long as they must or readily failing.In such a lot hybrids, if the hybrid battery percent is flat, you can't begin the vehicle!

Answer 3

I was wondering that myself. On the new plug in cars.....how much fuel does it take to generate the electricity to charge the batteries.....and how much extra is your electric bill going to be.
Good question.

Answer 4

Trust me, in business, everything is charged, including the profit.

Answer 5

most of the elect is made by brakeing. and it is counted.