Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[MoKelly]

If CNBC reports it, it must be true.

Man - you made me spit out my drink!!

MoKelly

 

[Hay Dude]

Man - you made me spit out my drink!!

MoKelly

Bahahahahahaha

 

[buckeyefarmer]

No
Body
Cares

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I was planning to put new tires on the daughter's pickup before the snow comes but I bought them 2 months ago and put them in the shop. The tire store said he felt like when the warehouses in the United States get emptied out that tires will be a little harder to get and at a higher price but who knows.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

First Tecnomar Lamborghini 63 Dream Motor Yacht Launched for Lucky Unknown Owner

Nice but I bet it will not be cheap.

Future Polaris Ranger Electric UTV Ditches the Engine, Stays in Beast Mode

Okay here's a link that I meant to post instead of the one above.

 

[Hay Dude]

First Tecnomar Lamborghini 63 Dream Motor Yacht Launched for Lucky Unknown Owner

Nice but I bet it will not be cheap.

Future Polaris Ranger Electric UTV Ditches the Engine, Stays in Beast Mode

Okay here's a link that I meant to post instead of the one above.

That’s going to be really cool. I like the fact that it’s quiet, so the constant 2 cycle engine whining goes away in the woods.

 

[PuffyC]

How long will new EVs take to be cleaner than gasoline models? It depends.

Green payback: How long will new EVs take to be cleaner than gasoline models?

It doesn't take EVs long to make up for their higher carbon emissions from manufacture, U.S. DOE modeling and analysis helps show.

www.greencarreports.com

 

[txdon]

Oops, solar just got more expensive. Needs a government subsidy.

Says one customer: “The question someone had for me was, knowing what you know now, would you go solar? Probably not. It's costing me another extra 100 bucks a month just to be green.”

"As it is, solar customers are paying under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour for distribution. Under the proposed new bill structure, customers would pay a “demand charge” of $5.15 per kilowatt during peak demand times."

PEC may raise rates for customers using solar power

While the change would affect wind and battery-powered customers as well, the bulk of homeowners affected use solar. PEC serves about 356,000 customers, mostly rural and suburban residents west of …

www.kxan.com

The bigger question is are non-solar customers picking up the tab for the extra cost from the home solar customers before this rate increase?

 

[PuffyC]

Oops, solar just got more expensive. Needs a government subsidy.

Says one customer: “The question someone had for me was, knowing what you know now, would you go solar? Probably not. It's costing me another extra 100 bucks a month just to be green.”

"As it is, solar customers are paying under 3 cents per kilowatt-hour for distribution. Under the proposed new bill structure, customers would pay a “demand charge” of $5.15 per kilowatt during peak demand times."

PEC may raise rates for customers using solar power

While the change would affect wind and battery-powered customers as well, the bulk of homeowners affected use solar. PEC serves about 356,000 customers, mostly rural and suburban residents west of …

www.kxan.com

The bigger question is are non-solar customers picking up the tab for the extra cost from the home solar customers before this rate increase?

That's an extra $100 in what is essentially a solar tax, not an extra $100 vs not having solar at all. IOW, his bill will go to about $100 per month vs the $3 per month he was paying before, which was with him providing power back to the grid, not taking. Considering all the complaining about the grid needing to be updated and how we're thinking about paying trillions more in taxes for infrastructure, you'd think we'd want more people generating their own power, not less. But then that assumes your goal isn't to support and maintain the local electric monopoly.

This will continue to be a problem as more people move to solar. The existing bureaucracies and government regulators will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo, which means maintaining grid and production these customers may not even use, and if they do, will use less over time. The solution for homeowners of course is to go off-grid and tell the electric companies to pound sand, which I'm sure many will, although eventually governments will likely try to impose a general 'electric grid' tax on all citizens whether they use grid-connected power or not, all in an effort to maintain current cash flows. After all, when 90% of your customers leave to generate their own power, how much would the remaining 10% have to pay to keep the system in place? They won't be paying 10 times more that's for sure - they wouldn't stand for it - so you know where that money will be coming from.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

New EV Air Conditioner Refrigerant Said To Extend Range By 50%

Perhaps changing the boiling point will make a difference. 2025 is not that far away.