Reply #28: The 35 miles figure is supposedly the average American daily driving. [View All]

[TheWraith]

Either way, though, it certainly compares favorably to gas, which at this point would be about $4.50 for a 35 mile drive, figuring on the average US car mileage. And even if you upped the figure to 50 miles per day, then you're talking 10.75 kilowatt-hours per vehicle, and about 1,075,000 megawatt-hours to reload a fleet of one hundred million. Stretched over a 5-hour period (figuring for deepest night) that's about 20% of our generating capacity, which still easily fits in to our night time surpluses.