Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

After watching this 13 minutes of EV battery paradigm shift starting in Germany I am less sure China has the potential of owning the EV market in the rest of the world. The pandemic related computer chip shortages is shifting attention to the First Principal way of thinking.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Don't buy solar panels: 7 reasons why you should hold off

While I think solar is cool I found this article to be a good reality check in our case.

In talking with our son I think for $1K we can build a EV only solar charging station.

In the meantime we have an old never opened HF 45 watt solar setup and have batteries and inverter options already to hack together a proof of concept 120v EV charging solution at no additional cost today.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Don't buy solar panels: 7 reasons why you should hold off

While I think solar is cool I found this article to be a good reality check in our case.

In talking with our son I think for $1K we can build a EV only solar charging station.

In the meantime we have an old never opened HF 45 watt solar setup and have batteries and inverter options already to hack together a proof of concept 120v EV charging solution at no additional cost today.

Now your thinking...

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Don't buy solar panels: 7 reasons why you should hold off

While I think solar is cool I found this article to be a good reality check in our case.

In talking with our son I think for $1K we can build a EV only solar charging station.

In the meantime we have an old never opened HF 45 watt solar setup and have batteries and inverter options already to hack together a proof of concept 120v EV charging solution at no additional cost today.

I have a nice south facing rock 100% slope that would host a nice solar installation. There's room for a couple acres of solar panels. At the most the panels would need to be 4' off the ground. It would be a PITA to drill all those rock anchors, and I don't know if Pacificorp would want to buy the power.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Hey, I resemble that comment! Any time I plan to be over 100 miles from the closest gas station, I load extra gas in the pickup. The onboard tank is only good for about 300 miles, so 150 miles there and 150 miles back leaves me running on fumes.

Wow 300 miles isn't much. My F150 will go 660 miles on a tank. It would go about 750 when new and the O2 sensors were working. What are the particulars? 10 mpg on a 30 gallon tank?

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Now your thinking...

Going solar can be a knee jerk reaction.

One plus coming out of the "Going Green" movement around the world is first to cut out wasting energy before computing energy requirements.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Going solar can be a knee jerk reaction.

One plus coming out of the "Going Green" movement around the world is first to cut out wasting energy before computing energy requirements.

We do our fair share of commercial building in California; you want to see a knee jerk reaction to energy consumption ?, read their Title 24 building code... You need 3 Philadelphia lawyers in the room to read it to you. On some projects we literally have to decipher how much daylight comes in through the windows and then throttle back the lighting to compensate so as not to waste the available daylight. ...
Oh yeah...

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Volvo's U.S. assembly plant will go all-electric

The more EVs China auto makers build in the USA the more jobs for the USA.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Wow 300 miles isn't much. My F150 will go 660 miles on a tank. It would go about 750 when new and the O2 sensors were working. What are the particulars? 10 mpg on a 30 gallon tank?

Compact truck. 16 gallon tank x 20 mpg = 320 miles.

 

[Grumpycat]

You missed the point...I thought it was funny the EV owners had to go the gas station to buy gas for a generator to charge an EV...too funny...live with it...!

I drove my Tesla to the gas station and nobody noticed.

Bought gas for the lawnmower. But haters probably thought I was buying gasoline for a generator to charge my car. If they even noticed the car was electric.