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Business; Financial Desk GM's Electric Vehicle 01/28/2001 Los Angeles
Times Home Edition C-5 Copyright 2001 / The Times Mirror Company

* General Motors thinks electric vehicles should not be a future
  option for California drivers due to the electricity crisis ["Power
  Crisis Is Weapon in Electric Car Debate," Jan. 19]. Sorry GM, but
  even if electricity prices double, an EV is cheaper to drive than a
  standard car.

How do I know this? I checked General Motors' own Web site, and I
recommend Dennis Minano, GM's vice president for energy and
environmental affairs, do the same.

At [ http://www.gmev.com/faq/faq.htm ] you can find GM's data on its
own EV, the groundbreaking EV1.

Here's a quote: "How much does it cost to charge the EV1? . . . 
Assuming your electricity costs 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, and with a
100-mile trip, energy cost for the lead-acid EV1 is 2.6 cents per
mile.  Therefore, a 100-mile trip in the EV1 would cost $2.60. In
comparison, a gasoline-powered vehicle that gets 22 miles per gallon
has an energy cost of 6.82 cents per mile (assuming gasoline costs
$1.50 per gallon). For a 100-mile trip in the gasoline-powered
vehicle, the energy cost would be $6.82. Using this example, the
gasoline-powered vehicle has an energy cost that is nearly three times
higher than the EV1."

My last Edison electric bill shows I'm paying 11.3 cents per
kilowatt-hour, and gasoline is a little more than $1.50 per gallon.
You can do the math and see that EVs still make a lot of sense.

JIM HOWARD
Cypress

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* Taking a lesson from the utilities, General Motors is trying to pull
  the wool over California's eyes by arguing that zero-emission
  vehicles would unduly tax the state's power grid.

They ignore the truth about these cars, which recharge at night when
demand is low and will be phased in over several years.

They ignore the high cost of gasoline, getting higher with OPEC's
recent 5% production cut.

They ignore the stable and affordable power that major car market Los
Angeles enjoys from producing its own power.

They ignore the increasing rates of childhood asthma in places such as
San Francisco and Sacramento.

And they ignore their shareholders, who are being left behind as GM
competitors Honda and Toyota surge ahead with major research
investments in this technology.

DAN ROSAN
Berkeley

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* If the automobile industry had genuine heartfelt concerns about
  electricity rather than its own profit-mongering interests in mind,
  it would shift its attention to using alternative energy sources.

Instead, auto companies are just using the energy crisis as a sorry
excuse to inch their way out of a mandate intended to benefit the
greater good, our planet. How convenient for them.

MONA HANOUNI
Anaheim
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