On 2012-06-26, PrecisionmachinisT wrote:

"J. Clarke" wrote in message in.local...
In article ,
says...

"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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While I haven't seen power budgets, if an electric car manages to take
80% of the energy that came in on the charging plug and turns it into
forward motion, I'd be surprised.


http://avt.inel.gov/pdf/fsev/costs.pdf

That's dollar cost and has little to do with the actual energy consumed.

Pretty sure Iggy was primarily looking at the situation from an economic standpoint, specifically, the out-of pocket cost per mile traveled.

No, from energy efficiency.