Are you sitting down? I pay between $7.50 to maybe $10 a month on electricity to drive my electric car. How much are you paying a month for you gasoline or diesel? Was that a week? or a month? I will say it again. I pay between $7.50 to maybe $10 a MONTH for the electricity I use in my electric car and I drive it to work every day. Charging? I am asleep for nearly 8 hours a day and as hard as I try, I am not typically driving my car when I am asleep, though if you ask my wife she might tell you different. My car only needs an 8 hour charge when I have completely depleted the batteries. I never do that because it is hard for me to find things to do where I use my car for 50 miles in one day. I go to work come back that is 10 miles. I pick up the kid that is about 4. I get groceries or dry cleaning that is about 2 miles. I go out to the bar which is about 8 miles to it and back. I am at 24 miles and I haven't done the full range yet. See what I mean? I get home, plug the car in which takes about 20 seconds and then I go in the house and drink until I pass out. The next morning I get up shave my tongue, shower, put on cloths if I can find them, go out to my car and unplug it. I am good for another 50 miles. Because I don't have to go to the gasoline station my electric car is actually more convenient then my gasoline car. I don't have to go anywhere to fill up with the electric car. I get billed once a month for the electric fuel I use and its cheap! And American electrons dude. I am loving it. I am so looking forward to the Chevy Volt.