{"id":354,"date":"2012-05-06T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/saved-360-this-month\/"},"modified":"2012-05-08T18:14:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:14:21","slug":"saved-360-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/06\/saved-360-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Saved $360 this month"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the rist of completely boring everyone with more talk of my Volt, here’s a cost comparison I have worked out with my previous car (Acura MDX) and the prototypical gas miser, the Toyota Prius. <\/p>\n

Comparing the cost to drive my Volt (at 2.5 cents\/mile) and the MDX (25 cents\/mile), I have saved $360 this month driving 1600 miles. At this rate, I would save $4320 in a year. Compared to a Prius, at about 45 MPG on regular at about $3.75, I have saved about $93 for the month.<\/p>\n

But I’ve been driving 40 miles to see Mom in the hospital almost every day. Past history shows I actually drive on average about 1000 miles\/month. In addition, summer electric rates are higher, increasing my costs in the Volt to about 3.9 cents\/mile. Averaged over a year, it comes to about 3.3 cents\/mile.<\/p>\n

Here are tables showing the savings this month, and then in a typical month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n Price of Energy <\/td>\n Miles\/Month <\/td>\n Cost\/Month <\/td>\n Cost\/Year <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Volt<\/td>\n$.025\/mile<\/td>\n1600<\/td>\n$40<\/td>\n$480<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MDX<\/td>\n$4.00\/Gal<\/td>\n1600<\/td>\n$400<\/td>\n$4,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prius<\/td>\n$3.75\/Gal<\/td>\n1600<\/td>\n$133<\/td>\n$1,600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n


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<\/td>\n Price of Energy <\/td>\n Miles\/Month <\/td>\n Cost\/Month <\/td>\n Cost\/Year <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Volt<\/td>\n$.033\/mile<\/td>\n1000<\/td>\n$32<\/td>\n$390<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MDX<\/td>\n$4.00\/Gal<\/td>\n1000<\/td>\n$250<\/td>\n$3,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prius<\/td>\n$3.75\/Gal<\/td>\n1000<\/td>\n$83<\/td>\n$1,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n


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At the rist of completely boring everyone with more talk of my Volt, here’s a cost comparison I have worked out with my previous car (Acura MDX) and the prototypical gas miser, the Toyota Prius. Comparing the cost to drive my Volt (at 2.5 cents\/mile) and the MDX (25 cents\/mile), I have saved $360 this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-family-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daryllafferty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}