Posted on 03/23/2022 9:33:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
“While my car is plugged in I use an app to start it up about 5 minutes or so before I leave.”
Many here will be misled by ‘start it up’!
“I agree. If you have regular long commutes, thus it’d take 18 hours to charge it up every night, then an EV is a bad choice.”
$459 buys a charger that gives you 30 miles per hour of charge.
But that gets into utilizing a special feature my solar system has that I'll use if I get an EV: it can power up a separate panel intermittently based on if my home solar batteries are charged to a set level (say 75% -- enough to power my home at night in most cases without pulling from the grid). Imagine coming home with an EV, which means it's time to plug it in, and having two 240V outlets to choose from. One is 32A and is powered only if I have spare solar power -- I might use that if I have say, 2/3rds of a "tank" left in my EV and no plans for extra driving in the next few days. If I get charge great, if not, no big deal. Or I might get charge for a while then the power to that outlet be cut in the middle of the night after my home solar batteries drop below 75% charged.
If I get home with the EV and it's low, or I plan to do a lot of driving for the next few days, I'd plug it into a constant powered 48A outlet. I'd do that knowing that most or all of the power will add to my electric bill. But if I need the charge I need it.
A system like that would probably get me well over half the miles powered free from my solar system (based on my study of driving 200 miles per week on average and my solar system having on average 2.56 hours per day with 100% charged batteries -- excess power I'm not putting to good use anyway).
Can you make the 17 hour drive from Boston to Milwaukee in an EV? I've done that drive under 15 hours, including the three stops for fuel, thanks to the boy's radar detector.
$1200 is all-in, professionally installed. I just picked up a Tesla Model 3 as a fifth car, and will be installing a 240v outlet myself this weekend, so my cost will be $500 for the charger plus materials for the outlet.
I have a 12 year old sporty car. I am not going to buy an EV to keep it in service longer.
“Federal tax incentive” means you and I pay to give a rebate to someone who buys one of these. Seeing the high prices, this is not for the low-income people. So low-income people are taxed money that goes to high-income people.
Not very fair.
“Can you make the 17 hour drive from Boston to Milwaukee in an EV? “
Can you go months with only filling up at home?
“Federal tax incentive” means you and I pay to give a rebate to someone who buys one of these.
No rebate on Tesla or GM. By the end of the year, none on Ford or Toyota.
“I have a 12 year old sporty car. I am not going to buy an EV to keep it in service longer.”
Who cares.
Evidently you do. My comment seems to have hit a nerve.
My lame reply to your lame point - sure, I can go months filling up at home. I have gas cans.
My driving is well away from home, beyond the range of any EV's single charge.
It appears you don't venture far from home routinely. I do. Your driving experience doesn't apply to me and many others.
Keep pimping EV's - fedgov is very happy that you, and many other fans of the e-toys, are doing their bidding. Someday, you'll wake up with no more Roush on the road. You'll really be moaning when they control the plug on your EV. Because Gaia and Greta.
Well i read those batteries can’t be recycled, and the price of electricity is not as reliable as it once was.
And then there is pollution in mining Lithium.
You might want read up on that a little more.
https://www.science.org/content/article/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries
Thanks. I keep thinking an EV would be useful for short trips around town, out to the range, etc. I will keep it in mind.
“Evidently you do. My comment seems to have hit a nerve.”
You need to brush up on your internet mind-reading skills.
“My driving is well away from home, beyond the range of any EV’s single charge.”
962 miles on a single tank? I think not.
“Well i read those batteries can’t be recycled,”
For your enjoyment: https://www.shortlist.com/news/20-of-the-internets-craziest-conspiracy-theories
“and the price of electricity is not as reliable as it once was.”
I read that price of gasoline is not as reliable as it once was.
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