david.rabine

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This was too much information to put on the main page, so here is my caluclations on cost of driving the leaf to work daily:

Nissan Leaf Energy Use

My commute is essentially 

  - Home to Highway:  0.87 miles
  - Highway:  24.2 miles
  - Highway to Office:  1.3 miles

  * 26.37 miles each way to work
  * 53 miles / day commute

Stefan drop of is 1.82 miles (so an extra mile to drop him off essentially)

92 MPGe for highway 

So 53 miles / 92 MPGe = 0.576 gallon equivalent

33.7 kwhr = 1 gallon

Commute would require 19.414 kwhr at 0.137 / kwr = $2.66 daily (13.7 cents / kWHr is total delivered cost as of 2013.08.15)

Assume 50 weeks:

Diesel gas = 1.06 gallons @ $4 = $4.24 / trip

Real gas = 1.514 gallons @ $4 = $6.06 / trip


Civic:
or 6.06*5= $30.285 / week = $1514.25 / year

Diesel Golf:
or 4.24*5= $21.20 / week = $1060.00 / year

Leaf:
$2.66 * 5 = $13.30 / week = $665 / year

80% of 24kwhr is your commute (19 kwhr).  So you would need the battery to really maintain range.  It cannot degrade much, unless you can charge at work (that SHOULD be do-able at some point)