{"id":98,"date":"2012-04-25T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=98"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T18:41:45","slug":"second-napkin-math-for-those-that-use-an-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/second-napkin-math-for-those-that-use-an-suv\/","title":{"rendered":"Second napkin math for those that use an SUV&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\n  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)\n  })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');<\/p>\n<p>  ga('create', 'UA-49483645-1', 'pascual.co');\n  ga('send', 'pageview');<\/p>\n<p><\/script><br \/>\nIn the vein of my earlier <a title=\"Back of the napkin math of last night\u2019s fill-up of 328i vs. cost of ActiveE\" href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/2012\/04\/back-of-the-napkin-math-of-last-nights-fill-up-of-328i-vs-cost-of-activee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post comparing our ActiveE with our 328i<\/a>. \u00a0Since it was time to fill up our 2001 X5 I figured it would be the time to compare the math\u00a0vs. the math previously computed for the ActiveE.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the back of the napkin math. The fill up was for super unleaded at $4.239 per gallon (price of gas is dropping from the time I did the 328i comparison) and I filled up with 20.070 gallons for a total of $85.08. The range says 430 miles, since I zero out the odometer after each fill up, I know I did 358.4 miles since the last fill up. This is about 10 gallons of gas more than the last fill up (9.761 gallons previously).<\/p>\n<p>So, I figure that my cost per mile (using Super Unleaded) is approx<strong>\u00a0$0.2374 per mile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As with the original calculations on the ActiveE, I&#8217;m heavily subsidized&#8230; I fill up at many locations where the electricity AND parking is free, the only place it costs to fill up is at home. I do about 35 miles each way to\/from work and I charge for free 3\/4 of a mile from the office, assuming 10 kWh of energy at home that I fill up and pay for on the average (some fill ups more, some less) to get me to full. I have yet to pay my Time of Use Tariff, so I&#8217;m defaulting to last month&#8217;s Domestic Tariff for Electricity, which tops off at $0.31 per kWh, so that&#8217;s $3.10 per day of fill up, 10kWh is about 1 day in 70 miles roundtrip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So my electric cost per mile last month is approximately\u00a0<strong>$0.0443 per mile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, 430 miles would run\u00a0<strong>$21.71 vs. $102.07<\/strong>\u00a0on the X5&#8230; or 1\/5th the cost of energy for the X5. \u00a0However, the X5 can fit a LOT of stuff vs. the ActiveE, so, it really is not a fair comparison. \u00a0Additionally, I use the two cars quite differently from the other. \u00a0However, I&#8217;ve found that shopping trips to Costco on the ActiveE is <strong>A LOT CHEAPER\u00a0<\/strong>than with the X5 as it lowers the likelihood of impulse purchases of larger (both size and ticket) items.<\/p>\n<p><em>Side note, Still waiting on the Time of Use bill, so I&#8217;ll update later when that comes up. But as I noted previously, I&#8217;m guessing that this new tariff drops my cost per kWh to between $0.10 to $0.16 per kWh (depending on Tier 1 or Tier 2 of usage). So, the next month&#8217;s cost will probably be closer to\u00a0<strong>$0.0222 per mile.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the vein of my earlier post comparing our ActiveE with our 328i. \u00a0Since it was time to fill up our 2001 X5 I figured it would be the time to compare the math\u00a0vs. the math previously computed for the ActiveE. Here&#8217;s the back of the napkin math. The fill up was for super unleaded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/second-napkin-math-for-those-that-use-an-suv\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second napkin math for those that use an SUV&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[87,223,346,424],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","tag-activee","tag-comparing-gas-vs-electric","tag-gas","tag-ice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}