EV owners of today and tomorrow

[Grumpycat]

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I like coal-fired electricity.

The average USA coal electricity powering my Model Y emits the same CO2 load as a gasoline ICE at 40 MPG.

I like CO2. Makes life greener. Shrinks deserts.

But I also like electricity which my Tesla doesn't give a hoot as to whether it comes from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, wind, or solar.

Details not finalized but new home will probably be getting 15kW of PV panels and 36 kWh of battery backup. How much would it cost to make biodiesel? How many supplies would you have to purchase? How much hazardous byproduct will you have to dispose of? How much work? PV solar has no moving parts, no consumables. I did this homework long ago when I owned a diesel truck.

 

[Grumpycat]

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Thank you for posting. Now copy that image into Google's image search to find the source.

The part trimmed from the article states, "Using diesel to charge EVs in the outback is greener than you think" (that is the link).

What they found was the BMW i3 went farther on a electricity from a gallon of diesel in that generator than the diesel automobiles under test.

Consider yourself owned. Ka-blam!

 

[Grumpycat]

I Supercharged today.

Let it run 9 minutes to 210 miles.

Might be easier to read if the next attached image is opened full size in another tab.

What it says is in 9 minutes I went from 43% to 65%. Average power supplied was 113.8 kW, 140 kW was the peak.

"Charge savings" makes no sense to me. This Supercharger bills $0.39/kWh and my total was $6.94.

Miles added: 71.41.

This is snipped from TeslaFi.com report on my day:

This is what it looked early in the charge in the Tesla app:

After, this is a cropped (awful) picture of the display in-car:

Arrived home with 115 miles remaining. So I Supercharged a bit more than I had to.

 

[Fixastuff]

Are you open minded enough to test drive a Tesla?

The driving experience is significantly superior. I've come to appreciate it more these past couple weeks making many 120, 150, and 210 mile days. And having said that, Tesla owner for 10.75 years.

Yes I’ve been in a Tesla and in ludicrous mode it truely lived up to that title. Unfortunately they don’t have a vehicle that can do what I need a vehicle to do. If I was looking for 0-70mph times it’s the way to go.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Reading this thread is like reading Facebook comments .... it makes my brain softer....

 

[tradosaurus]

But you don't get it, the ICEheads are clearly superior to us misguided EV owners and are only trying to save us from ourselves!

I would be curious of the % of EV owners that still own an ICE. I'm not against ICE as I have one for a purpose.
What I don't like is people making negative comments about EV's without any personal knowledge of owning and operating one.
I'm not concerned about my EV self combusting any more than I'm worried about my ICE doing the same.

 

[tradosaurus]

Golly, that never happens to ICE vehicles!

Decades ago I commuted from south of Birmingham, through Birmingham on I-65. A burned car on the side of the road was not uncommon. And since then I've seen many large scorch marks on highways and interstates where something burned before it got dragged off the road.

Most recent was a helicopter crash, but I doubt any of the other burn marks were as rare as an ICE powered helicopter crash.

I am reminded now of my younger sister who newer Ford two hatch (Mustang LX?) burst into flames on I-45 south of Houston back in early 90's.

 

[tradosaurus]

Reading this thread is like reading Facebook comments .... it makes my brain softer....

Given the uneducated responses I can believe it.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Gaslighting.

I didn't say that the best selling car in the world isnt "doing something right". The claim was that it was superior in almost every way, witnessed by its sales numbers...

I also didn't say Tesla wasn't successful before the tax credits around the world, because they arent just in the US... I said it would be interesting to see if it would be the best selling car in the world without the government incentives. Because it became the best selling car, after those incentives were given.

I do love how statements aren't faced head on. The only way to respond seems to be to change the subject altogether, and to call people names. This is my daily dose of humor.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Given the uneducated responses I can believe it.

Although my ''uneducated'' comments wasn't directed to you, your defensive response say it all.