Comments on: Review July 5, 2010 http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2010/07/review-july-5-2010/ Truth in Energy Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:26:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Russ Novak http://www.aspousa.org/index.php/2010/07/review-july-5-2010/#comment-4140 Russ Novak Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:52:54 +0000 http://www.aspousa.org/?p=4001#comment-4140 "Every million electric vehicles running entirely on electricity would save just 31,000 barrels per day of gasoline, or about 0.3% of our current usage, and that’s assuming they would replace cars getting today’s average mpg, rather than Prius-type non-plug-in hybrids. To see the energy transition really take off, we must reach the point at which the alternatives are unambiguously better/faster/cheaper than oil, or can at least match its cost and convenience. (6/30, #25)" That works out to a savings per electric vehicle of only 1.3 gallons per day... Can that be a good figure? Sounds a bit low to me. “Every million electric vehicles running entirely on electricity would save just 31,000 barrels per day of gasoline, or about 0.3% of our current usage, and that’s assuming they would replace cars getting today’s average mpg, rather than Prius-type non-plug-in hybrids. To see the energy transition really take off, we must reach the point at which the alternatives are unambiguously better/faster/cheaper than oil, or can at least match its cost and convenience. (6/30, #25)”

That works out to a savings per electric vehicle of only 1.3 gallons per day… Can that be a good figure? Sounds a bit low to me.

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