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Our favorite Terminator (and Governor of California) Arnold Schwarzenegger has just helped Tesla Motors make an announcement that's probably sending chills through traditional automaker's boardrooms. The company has just introduced a fully-electric, five passenger sports sedan dubbed the Model S, which will be selling for $60,000, and will manage 225 miles on a full charge.
That should also be in the 2 cents per mile range compared to a 30 mile per gallon car at 5 dollars a gallon gasoline being:
500/30 = 16.66 cents per mile.
A few other numbers to consider would be 12,000 miles per year costs.
2 cents times 12,000 miles is 24,000 cents or 240 dollars per year and that is a cost for someone who does not produce their own electricity with Solar Panels.
16.66 cents time 12,000 is 199,920 cents or 1,999 dollars per year for 1,000 miles per month or 12,000 miles per year or about 33 miles per day.
If someone is currenlty spending 100 dollars per week on gasoline, then someone is burning 5,200 dollars per year in gasoline.