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Even if we use your number of 2.8 miles/kwh, the Nissan still costs 4 cents/mile @12 cents/kwh. Or 1/2 the cost of a Jaguar @ the national B100 average of $4.20/gallon.

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With respect, please take the time and make the effort to understand the world around you. Today, the average kwh rate in CA is about $.24 rather than your suggested $.12kwh.  Many areas of CA are now peaking at $.38kwh. This is the result of clean air legislation and increased renewable energy sources. Should the rest of the country opt for the same level of clean air legislation, the kwh price in many parts of the country would rise to 3-4x this cost - over $1kwh - due to the lower number of photons and greater amounts of rain, hail, snow, ice, humidity, tornadoes, hurricanes, ..., in those areas. A more viable alternative is the proverbial National Smart Grid where solar and wind power are long hauled from their optimum generation sources to other parts of the nation. Though this plan, by all estimates, will require a double digit $T something commitment (in the range of $12T-$25T by most reports) - by those states that need the energy.  This also results in something close to $1/kwh.

Dexter Ford, the long respected auto industry journalist, recently had an article printed in the NYT, "As Cars Are Kept Longer, 200,000 Is New 100,000". I was surprised at what he thought was important in that article until I began "walking a mile in his moccasins", if you will.  Here is a guy who has been writing about cars for decades.  His very livelihood is based on the evaluation of new models - year after year.  Has this man or for that matter, has any individual so well embedded in the auto industry ever driven a single vehicle over 200,000 miles?  To most of these people, the very concept is probably a concerning and potentially embarrassing thought.

Penn & Teller are a veritable institution in Las Vegas Entertainment.  Good to see they are expanding their horizons and using their celebrity to help the environment.

P_ENN & T_ELLER & H₂O

It has been an interesting experience visiting the Tesla Forum.  Throughout the etcgreen.com website and on our blog posts there, we salute EV's as a viable solution to reduce our dependency on petroleum and (if the energy source is not coal) reduce emissions.  The purpose of our articles is not to attack EV technologies, rather it is to provide buyers accurate information that they can better filter through the EV marketing hype that we all constantly encounter.  Our shared and ultimate goal is to reduce our dependency on petroleum and emissions with an immediate and economically viable solution.