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Powerwall?

 

If I do grid-tied solar at scale I will probably DIY a LiFePO4 power bay - essentially the same as a Gen3 Powerall without the overhead - and with more flexibility...

 

Good thing Bush bailed out GM, otherwise that ZR1 probably wouldn't have been an option.

I'll just wait until the government starts incentivizing EVs again.

 

Bush and Obama bailed out the Unions, not GM.

I would not have done so.

As far as Corvettes and my beloved Sierra - you would still be able to buy them today had we not bailed out GM.
I'm old enough to remember when idiots were buying Twinkies at inflated prices because Hostess was swirling the drain in 2012 and their union didn't understand what happened to Eastern Airlines.
I don't know what happened to their pensions.....but I KNOW what happened to their jobs.

Either way?
You can still buy Twinkies today.

Be not afraid, Jar-head.
I'm going to be replacing my roof this month - and it might be the last one I have to do.
Or not.
Storms can be tough on roofs.....

Then my intentions are to start cash flowing what will eventually be a grid-tied solar system.
I have to not only deal with inverter losses but also RFI so the "power wall" will come last.
I already use LiFePO4 batteries for other hobbies.
I've had conversations with people who actually brag about the 'efficiencies' of their solar panels recharging their cars without understanding the DC-AC-DC thing.
We're still in early days.....


I'm "NOT" an early adopter.
I let other people pay those taxes.
All this will come eventually OR? since the runway is getting shorter for both of us maybe never.
Right now, it's a tinker project/hobby.

For storm power I use what works.
Propane.
Generator.
The advantages of Propane over NatGas are the same as those with my Starlink for Comms.

No 'last mile issues' for delivery and it's PAYGO.

 

I'm pretty sure that in 2008 Bush loaned $13.4 billion dollars directly to GM and Chrysler that would eventually expand to $17.4 billion.

Whether or not the Corvette would still be here today doesn't take away the fact that the government incentivized something important to them at the time. What gets incentivized and what gets disincentivized changes with every change in government. This isn't really a free market where companies are allowed to grow or collapse on their own. I'm not saying what the government does is bad, but you can't point fingers and say this president is bad for incentivizing EVs, for an example, because the next president gets in there and will incentivize something else.