Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

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...

Tesla says it will power all Superchargers with renewable energy this year - Electrek

Here you go.

 

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Tesla says it will power all Superchargers with renewable energy this year - Electrek

Here you go.

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.

 

[California]

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.

Aaron Z

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.

 

[kenmbz]

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

 

[MoKelly]

Is it funny, stupid or just plain ironic that some EV owners in CA are using gasoline generators to charge their car batteries...!

I thought gas generators were illegal in California. I thought I read all generators had to be battery powered.

MoKelly

 

[PuffyC]

I thought gas generators were illegal in California. I thought I read all generators had to be battery powered.

MoKelly

I guess you could put a couple of these in your trunk:

https://www.lowes.com/pd/EGO-NEXUS-POWER-STATION-KIT-4X5-0AH/1003130772

 

[Gale Hawkins]

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?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

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.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Next year's all-electric Volvo XC90 will come standard with Lidar - Electrek

This should be good for the development of Lídar.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

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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