If you can charge regularly at home or at work I think an EV can definitely work today. With the resale prices even if you lose your job with access to charging it’s easy to sell the EV.
We stayed in an Airbnb in CA this summer. It was behind the owners house and they had two BMW i3’s. They had to move cars around and stretch the charger over their other car in the driveway but it seemed to work for them with multiple cars.
For me I’ve been parking my EV in the driveway recently since that side of the garage has some wood working projects I have to finish. The good news is I mounted the charger by the door so I can just back the car up the driveway and run the cable under the garage door.
The car market is so screwed up right now.I got a EVSE with a 25ft cord at our previous house which made charging easy without having to shift any vehicles around. I'm actually back in an i3s BEV now with the largest battery. BMW gave me a trade in value for my 330e equal to what I paid for it a year and a half ago.
The car market is so screwed up right now.
Do you like the i3?
Wife saw a post about the first F150 lightning in the area. It went for over $100K
As an update to electric cars and the partisan narrative surrounding them.....
America's electric grid and energy generation may need a serious upgrade if we are to support this.
And of course, Republicans will oppose such things.
Imagine the message the state of California just sent to the EV industry.
California asks residents not to charge electric vehicles, days after announcing gas car ban
Fox is salivating at the opportunity.
EV enthusiast or not the world is NOT yet fully ready for EV's.
As of this moment if you can't charge at work or at home on a regular basis an EV will be at best a PITA to daily-drive and sooner or later you will get stuck with insufficient charge for your trip with no convenient fix in sight.
Had we been fully dedicated to preparing for the change-over to all-EV in say 2012 we most likely still wouldn't be there yet but we would be a lot closer.
Connecticut is on the "EV-ready" side of things and even here relying entirely on remote-charging to get around is a fools errand.
Biggest issue with the Leaf is Nissan's lack of cooling for the battery pack. Really disappointing given how perfect it is for a commuter or errand running car.I'll be putting in as many solar panels as the PUD will allow for net metering. It was 12 KW last I checked. I'll get a 30% tax credit on that. I want an EV but don't really want a new one as a retiree. I'd be happy with a ~80 mile range used Leaf, but here is no tax incentive for that.
You can add me to that list.And I seriously doubt that enough Americas will embrace that change going from gas to battery.
CFL's suck balls compared to incandescents. (LED's however are fine)
Note that I'm VERY "flicker-sensitive".... for example anything lower than a 90hz vertical refresh-rate on a CRT gives me a headache and so does any extended reading under a CFL. (or the not compact long-tube kind!)
I'll be putting in as many solar panels as the PUD will allow for net metering. It was 12 KW last I checked. I'll get a 30% tax credit on that. I want an EV but don't really want a new one as a retiree. I'd be happy with a ~80 mile range used Leaf, but here is no tax incentive for that.
My fam is about 60 miles from the new digs, and I really don't need more than that. It would be nice to round trip it with no charging, but I am hoping I can get a little juice when I am hanging out.
That will mostly fix itself once the premium buyers have all been sold, then the manufacturers will target the mid and low end with much more basic cars simply to distinguish the high end from the low end as in upper tier cars/trucks or whatever will have mood lighting and romantic incense dispersed thru the vents and the get you to f-ing work car will have none of that.There will be a few that refuse to give up their brodozers, but not enough to matter. Electrics are good enough now for most people, improvements in battery's, charging, and infrastructure are still needed, but the tech is there.
The simple reality is operating cost for an electric is way lower than an ICE.
My only real gripe with electrics is the tendency to load them with gadgets. I don't need a Bluetooth washer fluid monitor, I don't need cabin mood lighting, or a howitzer sound system.
No, it will be more like the switch from incandescent bulbs to CFLs. A few crazies but the country will move on just fine.
Here in CA it's not just road funding, it's rebuilding the power grid as well. We're already at capacity on hot days. My guess is charging an electric car will be banned in the afternoon and evening.Going to be interesting to see how the roads get funded once electric hits the tipping point. Gas tax would be unfair or simply too large. Maybe something built into the excise tax? Maybe something else that is a small weekly charge?
Side note a deplorable I know claimed a few weeks ago that electric car owners are paying thousands of dollars a month in electric “it’s more expensive than gas!”
When asked why the few guys we know with teslas are saying their electric bill has jumped he said “their too embarrassed to admit it”
ummm okay sounds legit, I’ll stay with gas.
Thinking about it the wrong way. Those millions of batteries connected are a store of power, available during peak times. NOT a draw from the grid. Just gotta change how we do things a little.Here in CA it's not just road funding, it's rebuilding the power grid as well. We're already at capacity on hot days. My guess is charging an electric car will be banned in the afternoon and evening.
Going to be interesting to see how the roads get funded once electric hits the tipping point. Gas tax would be unfair or simply too large. Maybe something built into the excise tax? Maybe something else that is a small weekly charge?
Side note a deplorable I know claimed a few weeks ago that electric car owners are paying thousands of dollars a month in electric “it’s more expensive than gas!”
When asked why the few guys we know with teslas are saying their electric bill has jumped he said “their too embarrassed to admit it”
It seems if we worst case EV / best case ICE we can get there.Gas taxes already don't come even close to covering road spending. Money is taken from general state and federal funds yet nobody complains about that.
This seems pretty unbelievable. Electricity is way way cheaper than gas in basically the entire country.
It seems if we worst case EV / best case ICE we can get there.
Electrify America can run all the way up to $0.43 / kWh without membership. Take a 2 mile / kWh F150 and you can drive 4.65 miles / dollar.
Take an Ecoboost F150 at 23mpg and gas which the cheapest is $3.01/ gallon around here and your get 7.64miles/ dollar.
Charge it at home with $0.11 / kWh electricity and suddenly the lightning goes 18.2 miles/ dollar.
Electrify America and to a lesser extent the super charger network charging 3-4 times as much as residential power eats into the cost savings of an EV.
This is why mandates are a terrible idea.
Best way to make it partisan and yet another culture war issue. Lots of Ds will also hate their choices being taken away.
Let competition do its work