Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[Gale Hawkins]

Carlos Ghosn: Nissan's Electrification Plan Is Too Slow

While I love our 2016 Nissan Leaf SL it is sad that Nissan dropped the ball and may lose it all.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Listened to this EV update just now doing my morning deck walk trying to prevent death by blood clots that are pandemic related.

 

[Agvg]

Carlos Ghosn: Nissan's Electrification Plan Is Too Slow

While I love our 2016 Nissan Leaf SL it is sad that Nissan dropped the ball and may lose it all.

This seems to be the default way for most Japanese industry, slow, conservative and unable to cope with fast change.

 

[PuffyC]

Speaking of EVs, if you haven't heard about Blue Oval City you should check it out: https://media.ford.com/content/ford...lead-americas-shift-to-electric-vehicles.html. It's an 11 billion dollar investment to create the largest and most advanced production complex in Ford's history. Six square miles with 2 battery plants, a tech college to train EV workers for the 11,000 new jobs, and battery recycling with 0 going to landfills. It will also help them address the massive consumer demand for EVs where they need to triple Mach-E production and they had to stop taking preorders for the Lightning pickup because the first 3 years of production were already spoken for.

I also had the chance to go by Tesla's Gigafactory in Texas last week which is similar in concept and touted to be the largest building in the world based on footprint. It's bigger than you're imagining. It should be making Cybertrucks and Model Ys next year with their electric Semi following. You can join the Amish and resist change if you like but the rest of the world is moving on.

 

[Fuddy1952]

This reinforces my EV point.
What is the purpose of going electric?
According to EV proponents it's to save planet Earth, get rid of nasty polluting coal and petroleum.
Also because since that EV can be charged at home either free by sunshine or at a free or inexpensive public station you're getting 150 mpg equivalent.
Therefore these gigaplex factories, the public and private charging systems whether wind, solar, hydro, or nuclear...that entire process start to finish...building million sq.ft. factories, tons of steel, other metals and plastics, manufacturing those 100Ks of EVs, batteries, solar panels, wind turbines, nuclear plant production, the recycling process...all of that...ALL of it causes zero pollution, zero environmental impact, and the end result is we'll now have (by 2035, 2050 whenever ICE everything is phased out and no more petroleum) we'll now have pure, clean air and water while stopping global warming since nothing in that process creates heat.
Clean, pure, cool free or inexpensive electric.
I'm totally amazed!
I'm so grateful for those in power, the CEOs, etc having our best interest at heart.
WOW!!!!!
Oh, I'm sorry, have to go now...Santa and the Tooth Fairy are at the door...

 

[Buggs67]

While it's irrelevant to me who Time thinks is the person of the year

Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year

Visionary. Showman. Iconoclast. Troll. How Elon Musk is reshaping our world and beyond

time.com

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Does Cold Weather Affect an Electric Vehicle’s Efficiency?

Owning an electric vehicle is great for saving money on fuel and saving the environment all year. But cold weather affect an EV's range?

www.motorbiscuit.com

To deice/heat our Leaf for 20 minutes when outside temperature is like 15F cuts our range by 10 miles at the cost of 25 cents.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/1...-lightning-reservations-as-demand-skyrockets/

The mandates must be working.

 

[Buggs67]

https://texasnewstoday.com/california-may-lower-solar-panel-incentives/571420/

"Current incentives allow residential solar customers to sell whatever energy they don’t use back to power companies at the retail rate for power, usually resulting in a big discount on their energy bills. But power companies say the savings are now so great that solar customers are no longer paying their fair share for the operation of the overall energy grid. "

 

[Gale Hawkins]

While it's irrelevant to me who Time thinks is the person of the year

Elon Musk Is TIME's 2021 Person of the Year

Visionary. Showman. Iconoclast. Troll. How Elon Musk is reshaping our world and beyond

time.com

Long but good read about the one changing the direction of the kids futures.

 

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https://texasnewstoday.com/california-may-lower-solar-panel-incentives/571420/

"Current incentives allow residential solar customers to sell whatever energy they don’t use back to power companies at the retail rate for power, usually resulting in a big discount on their energy bills.

I don't think this is universally true (at the very least it's probably a US-centric viewpoint)

But power companies say the savings are now so great that solar customers are no longer paying their fair share for the operation of the overall energy grid. "

I can see the point here, and I don't think it's unreasonable to have an interconnect fee - though I don't trust them to come up with an appropriate figure.

As batteries get better and better, I think we'll see more and more people go off-grid, especially if the interconnect fee becomes exorbitant - the power companies will have to choose an amount which accurately reflects the service they provide, and also takes into account the service that the small solar power generator provides back to the grid as well (I don't mean paying for their power - that should be a given - but when a home solar pumps unused power into the grid in the afternoon when nobody's home and businesses are pulling hard for their A/C, the homes are reducing the grid's need to build out more power plants, just like the grid provides the home the ability to run at night with fewer batteries).