Bull crap! As the video shows, a complete recharge can take up to an hour depending on the actual charging station. Convenient? You can hardly find one and when you do, there's almost always a line to use them and that line is slow to work down. Eco-Friendly? This is the biggest of all lies. 90% of the electric comes from coal-fired generators, depending where you are. In Australia, diesel generators supply all remote changing stations.
Also, what happens on a windless night to your home charger? Where is the power stored in such situations. We do not have batteries large enough to meet even a small fraction of the expected demand.
To determine why the gov't is so concerned, just follow the money. How much of the subsidies (e.g., Solindra) ends up in stockholder hands (Obama, Warren, Clinton, etc.) Ever wonder why Congress passed a law that exempts them from insider trading?
And in all the noise and shouting, eventually what is the Libs plan to come up with some kind of lubricating oil for the engine?
“Also, what happens on a windless night to your home charger? Where is the power stored in such situations. “
Wind has never been needed in my charging situation but when the sun goes down if the grid is down for some reason I guess I could pull power from the trifuel 15,000 watt generator that backs up my panels. That puts out 50 amps at 240V it would fill that model 3 in three hours from 50% to 100%
It’s irrelevant since during the day it was filled in the first few hours of daylight on its designated charging day it only needs to be charged once a week from 50% to 100%. I take it to my fav sports bar 15 miles away or on a far trip to east Dallas that’s 45 miles away for an evening out in the trendy part or DFW. Either way it comes home to the stable of vehicles in the steel building. There is two 50 amp plugs in there it will be back at 80% in a few hours while I sleep. It’s cheaper to buy off peak power for it and sell every kWh turning the peak of the day vs using the panels to directly charge it. That doesn’t mean it can’t be charged by the panels it works out economically in my favor to not do that. Natural gas is cheap enough by the CCF that even running the generator would be cheaper than buying gasoline on a cost per mile basis but the extra wear on the generator would be not worth it only in grid down situations when it’s running anyways. There is a 250 gal propane tank on property I rent it for a back up fuel source should both the gas and electric grids go down like they nearly did in Feb 21. It’s only a few hundred extra a year to upgrade to a 500 gal tank but it just sits there the only thing I ever use it for is crawfish boils where you need high PSI propane for 200,000btu jet burners vs natural gas in the outdoor kitchen stove, grill and griddle.
I have looked at a ten kw wind turbine on a 30 meter monopole cable stayed tower why because wwhen it’s windy it tends to be cloudy so wind complements the panels well. It’s really.windy at night in the North Texas plains near Oklahoma and during the winter the wind howls at night all that energy is just begging to be captured.