Ha! That's me all the time. I'll be talking to somebody and they'll say 'Hey, what's up with all the ______________ going on where you are?' and 9 times out of 10 I have no idea what they're even talking about. It's like some media droid sees 1 or 2 people do something odd, they write a story because it makes for good clickbait, then everybody reading it just assumes it's this massive state-wide thing.I'm here and I never heard of that. It must be a story circulating in Texas.
See my sig quote ....
Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.
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You're talking about the EV owners that are sick because they didn't buy Tesla to start with.
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Tesla is just breaking the trail, many more are going to follow.
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China will rule. Tesla is forecast to only have 10% market in 2030. Today they are the only proven ICE replacement option. Our Nissan Leaf is awesome but is not an ICE killer. Our road car is a 2010 F-150.
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Ok, kinda breaking the thread title a bit, more of a yesteryear.
The CitiCar is an Electric Cheese Wedge From the 70's
The CitiCar is an Electric Cheese Wedge From the 70's
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The entity that will rule is the one that creates a feasible, affordable mobile power source that does not require charging a battery from the grid...
Anyone that thinks the future of EVs involves batteries...they have no sense of vision of the big picture...
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Sounds like Chinese chips are not there.
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That sounds like Tesla for sure.
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Around here it's 11:00 p.m.
We have time of use and demand power at work and the price gets ridiculously cheap after 11:00 p.m.
The downside is, whatever our max 15 minute daytime KWH usage for the month is what we get billed as if we used for the entire month.
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tbh I have doubts that they'll be able to do this; most likely they'll do what Rivian is saying (in that same article) they'll have to do in places - use offsets, because in some places purely renewable energy isn't available 24/7, so you may have to use some coal- or gas-generated electricity at some times and offset that use in other ways.
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Ouch! But that model does track along with how the utility needs to plan their maximum generating capacity, so I guess it makes sense.
I mentioned this before - a friend in Sacramento bought a Tesla and signed up for SMUD's charger install, special meter, and their time-of-use pricing. He was amazed to learn that their EV plan includes SMUD paying HIM occasionally when they need to shed excess capacity in the middle of the night.
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I remember Tesla and maybe others trying for solar on their experimental cars.
Didn't work in garages and throughput to weight was not good.
Maybe as they get the efficiencies up on solar this will change, but not soon.
Maybe give away solar panels with each new car
Didn't work in garages and throughput to weight was not good.
Maybe as they get the efficiencies up on solar this will change, but not soon.
Maybe give away solar panels with each new car
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I thought gas generators were illegal in California. I thought I read all generators had to be battery powered.
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I guess you could put a couple of these in your trunk:I thought gas generators were illegal in California. I thought I read all generators had to be battery powered.
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https://www.lowes.com/pd/EGO-NEXUS-POWER-STATION-KIT-4X5-0AH/1003130772
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A rare new coal mine in southern Colorado adds to Trinidad's economic revival
Coal may not be cool today but without steel where would we be today?
Coal may not be cool today but without steel where would we be today?
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Chevron Won’t Cut Oil & Gas Business For Renewables | OilPrice.com
This is a good thing. Without oil and gas the EV evolution will NOT happen. This fact came straight from the mouth of Elon Musk.
This is a good thing. Without oil and gas the EV evolution will NOT happen. This fact came straight from the mouth of Elon Musk.
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Next year's all-electric Volvo XC90 will come standard with Lidar - Electrek
This should be good for the development of Lídar.
This should be good for the development of Lídar.
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Chinese steel futures rise; coking coal, coke log weekly gains
Their EV efforts are driving their steel industry as they build out to meet the world's demand for EVs.
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Their EV efforts are driving their steel industry as they build out to meet the world's demand for EVs.
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