95% Of All Trips Could Be Made In Electric Cars, Says Study

No smok'n necessary ... and Yes ... electrons entirely made at home. No coal smoke or coal shute necessary. Don't EVER doubt me, my friend - we generate about a 2,000kWh yearly surplus:






as to the plastics in our 4 wheel toaster being carcinogenic ... link?
they ARE 100% recycled though.

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Do common plastics raise cancer risk? UAB research raises concerns about chemical additives | al.com
Futurity.org – BPA in plastics raises breast cancer risk

just google..

with respect to electrons you are not making them at home, you are merely making them move. To make electrons you'd have to have a very expensive particle accelerator and multimillion budget :cheer2:

 

Wow... How much you got?

I have 4700Wp in the shed (IN, not ON... , busy designing a structure that doesn't need screws going through the roof-lining) and 556Wp that's facing wrong and only starts delivering full power at 3PM... (Previous house it was facing South, but not that simple in my current house: roof no longer flat).

 

Nice PV array on your roof, but dang, that's one scary looking gargoyle you have up there. Does it keep the birds off the array?

Tom

 

To me that would be infuriatingly inconvenient. I would not suffer it unless there were no other choices or EVs were virtually free. I disagree with "most folks". I'd say most folks would have no interest in that whatsoever. I am impatient enough as it is even putting gasoline in my tank and that takes only 2-3 minutes. I also am impatient that my microwave can't crank out more watts. I want more, faster than yesterday and don't want to go backwards. I am used, as most people are, to technology increasing convenience, not decreasing it.

It does, but in his example it would not be something you'd do regularly and most of the time it's a slow charge at home.

Most people will continue to wonder about examples above such as got home from work and need a quick trip, do I have enough charge? Or those 5%. That's why until EVs have much better ranges than they do now (Tesla is the only company with a vehicle that has a serious range, even the fully-charged Leaf is only rated a bit over 70 miles and that's with a brand new pack charged at 100%, which is against Nissan's typical recommendation of 80%) the only thing for most of us is a volt or plug in prius, if we want any electric range at all.

I could do an EV as one of our cars and would consider it. Will consider it next time I get a car (Leaf only one on the horizon that would be at a potential match now or PiP if it didn't carry a big price premium) but I imagine only briefly. I won't pay substantial more for an EV with its various issues than a similar gas vehicle (hybrid or not). I don't have enough free income to be one of those helping to push that tech into mainstream.

I made a thread asking about this some time ago here and was also dismayed. The range penalty of an EV in cold weather is extremely severe and in worse case can actually bring its cost per mile to basically the same as a Prius. Come hell or high water I don't want to ever be stuck in 15F with the heat turned off because I'm concerned I won't otherwise have enough charge to make it home.