Posted on 10/02/2022 10:17:48 AM PDT by qaz123
That many?
How about $7.5billion go to the folks down in Florida.
It’s all very simple. Hummers have a protracted history of being more trouble than their worth. Like I said to the other guy, back when they were introduced people would buy them and find out they didn’t fit in their 1 car garage. Like every other Hummer this thing is overpowered, overpriced, and doesn’t actually fit in well in the life of the owner.
The real headline of this story is “Guy Buys EV Hummer, Finds Out Why People Think Hummer Owners Are Dumb.”
Hmmmmm, I do it every night for a plugin hybrid Chevy volt. Plug it in after dinner, unplug and use it all day after breakfast. Of course it has a pretty fixed range of 35 miles, but that is what works for my use. Plus in the used market it cost less than $10k. Different strokes for different folks.
The #1 reason it works so well is I regulate it, not the bureaucrats.
Aren't you special. Are you in Palm Springs? Where you do not have to worry about hail stones destroying your beloved solar panels.
How many residences have 440 volt service?🤔
Look, you and I probably think a lot alike. If I had my way the gubment wouldn't make fossil fuels a low supplied, price hiked commodities. The same with high electricity rates. But I can't stop them from doing that.
My 2nd best option would be drilling and processing my own natural gas, or my own oil, or my own coal. But I can't do that either.
So I use solar to give my family some independence from the Dims' controlling us with their warmageddon cult. There aren't many of us who do solar for this reason, but the numbers are growing.
Basically for best Lithium battery life don't charge to 100% or run it down to zero.
In an expensive EV that basically means you're going to burn up your battery faster with an expensive battery replacement much sooner if you DON'T keep it between 40% and 80% charged.
Of course that means your "range" is only 60% of the advertised range.
For me, in the south, I don't want to have to turn off the A/C just to get to the next charging station. ;-)
Well it looks like you are a survievelist, and nothing wrong with that, you are looking after your family as an option.
Also having solar power, but going all solar is really an option, especially where I grew up in, Pittsburgh, where the sun only shines literally 33% of the time.
Pushing solar and wind, as Gavin Newsome will never understand, this brings another cave age.
Evereying old is new again.
Glorified golf cart owners to the rescue in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1! The floriduh to texas transplants for example.
“I just love my Tesla Sneersucker, my solar cells work just wonderfully, bla, bla, bla, bla.
I have owned more than two hundred cars and motorcycles, and a hot rod shop—I am a confirmed gearhead. I also own a Tesla. The two are not mutually exclusive.
I just survived ian. About 100 hours no power. Wed 4pm it went off. Went back around 2 today. How the hell could I have escaped had I lived near fort Myers or Tampa in bumper to bumper jams. I used maybe 30 to 40 gallons of gas to keep my deep freezer going, pump water out of my house and run well for an hour. No luck on refrigerator. I used goal zero solar generator to charge phones n flashlight and lamp during the night. I used propane and charcoal grill to cook on. I AM NOT GOING EV. Not ever. I used multiple sources of energy power to survive. My next expense is remote start generator as I am 65 and could not pull the damn cord.
You’re not an idiot. Your Volt simply has a smaller capacity battery and fits your use case.
Adapters are available for electric charging as well.
To be clear. Water was under my house thank God
ICE efficiency is actually in modern engines about 35%-40%.
What it means is the ratio of output mechanical energy to input chemical energy of the fuel. Basically the mechanical energy (J) to ideal power (J) you get from burning the fuel.
Of course the bigger the ratio, the more power the engine delivers out of given amount of fuel.
But then there is the mass of the car, the aerodynamics etc. all come into the mileage equation.
Increasing engine efficiency is a hard task, many great minds are working on it as we speak, mostly by refining the computer algorithms sensing various conditions and delivering optimal amount of optimal fuel and air mixture.
However it is quite complicated. Due to all kind of physics, the efficiency of thermal engines is not that good.
But that applies both to car engine and power generator.
The massive turbines generating power in power plants are also about 35%-40% effective, the gas turbines even lower.
Adding to conversion from mechanical to electrical energy, losses in wires and conversion back to mechanical energy, the EV is definitely less efficient that the ICE!
However, the idiots in charge, they see only the efficiency of the EV engine which is maybe 80%, so it is looking great, but they do not see all the efficiencies of power generation and transmission losses.
They even created EV efficiency unit MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent) which compares mile driven by amount of electricity equal amount of electricity burned in resistor generating thermal energy equivalent to thermal energy of burning gallon of fuel.
This is obviously the same as above, just assuming that the electrical power was delivered to the car without any losses in generation and transmission.
Total bogus! Real miles per gallon equivalent should be the MPGe times about 3x, the 1/efficiency of the electrical delivery system,
But is obviously pleases the do-gooder crowd!
To explain plainly, conversions between mechanical and electrical energies, as well from electrical or mechanical energy to thermal energy can be made very efficient, close to 100%.
However conversion from thermal to mechanical or electrical energy is lot less efficient, theoretically limited by the Carnot cycle efficiency.
Again the idiot in charge will argue that we can get all electricity “free” by renewables, which is stupid, as the renewable energy is even more expensive than the thermally generated one.
Interesting. Thank you
How many can? Are residential homes able to handle that?
I was under the impression that was reserved for commercial applications.
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