Posted on 10/26/2022 6:48:27 AM PDT by dynachrome
With EV adoption on the horizon, many still have range and charging anxiety. Will there be a charger available where I’m going? Will it give me enough juice to get back home? These are the questions a lot of potential EV owners are asking. Now, Lucid should be able to offer some reassurance to Air owners, thanks to a new home charger that can deliver up to 80 miles of range per hour plugged in.
The company released the new charger as part of its line of new Lucid vehicle accessories. Called the Lucid Connected Home Charging Station, it makes a big promise: using AC charging and capable of supporting up to 19.2 kWh, it can deliver up to 80 miles of range per hour.
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“So you the smartest man in the world huh? Sheit, I thought your head would be bigger. Let’s get you sworn iiin.”
““If you’re planning to buy an electric vehicle, you should definitely charge your car at home, ideally via a rooftop solar array with full net metering”
That is not a couple of panels, that is a rooftop, covered with them. Those panels and that giant battery in the garage are filled with rare earth and exotic metals that are strip mined.
And then there are those times I remember growing up in Texas in the winter, where you have those gray overcast skies for weeks at a time...
“Until some type of swappable elements are developed, I don’t see EVs gaining a lot of traction in the Big Sky areas of the US.”
And it will take hours at these charging stations to get EV ppl back on the road. I see an opportunity here. At each charging station, build a likker store and a gun range, so the patrons can kill time.
“for someone so smart, you sure are dumb.”
“Capable of” if your home breaker box can support it. Probably not.
A 220 line, similar to that of an electric drier, provides me with @30 miles of go per hour. That’s more than enough to fully charge over 10-12 hours parked at home.
Batteries are like BBQ; low & slow is best.
TexasGator believes that everyone should buy a new EV for $50k or more, then everyone should pay an additional $25 to 30k for a full array of solar panels on their house, and then another $4k to get yourself a badass super charger. What Gator hasn’t thought thru is what to do about all of the worlds renters. How do they put solar on their landlords roofs TG? Or do you believe the landlords should supply this anemity, what about all the condo owners in 20 and 40 story buildings, 100s of tenants all wanting to charge their EV every night, I guess every building will have to be retrofitted with all new technology and have a hundred chargers in the garages.
And you plug in at 8pm and at 9:00pm your wife or family member has a medical emergency and the local hospital is 40 miles away, what you gonna do?
Well, first of all I plug in at about 5:30 and I still have a 75% charge left.
But if that wasn’t the case I would take one of my gasoline cars.
EV’s are good commuter cars and should not be your only vehicle.
This requires almost 100 Amps of 240V power.
More than almost all houses are wired for.
In addition to $1,200 charger, you are talking about major rewiring of your house and probably even the rewiring of your street connection. Pretty expensive if you even can do it.
Some utilities will not let you do it.
So everyone will have to own both an EV and an ICE vehicle?
I’m not an EV hater, but if everyone owned EV’s and someone invented a gasoline car, it would be considered an upgrade for most. (”Wait, I can refuel at a rate of 30 miles per 10 seconds? And, I can refuel to 100% every time without long-term harm to my car?”)
Until the electrical grid can support everyone driving EV’s, it’s not gonna happen. I do not see any plan in place to expand the grid. To replace hydrocarbon fuels used in transportation, it is estimated that some 500 nuclear plants will need to be built. That’s not going to happen anytime soon.
Then there’s the small problem of obtaining the rare earths for the batteries...
Chris Martenson has a good summary of our current predicament in his “Crash Course”. Here’s the section on transportation fuels.
https://peakprosperity.com/lessons/crash-course-chapter-20-peak-cheap-oil/
What’s an extra hour when you’re already 20 minutes late for your dental appt?
“If we trade daytime gas stations for supply-based EV charging, our cost of driving the car and refueling those cars will cost even more than gasoline at $3.50 a gallon,” Cinnamon said.”
Heavens no.
Not everyone owns a gasoline car.
Everyone should get to make their own choice regarding what they own. I completely reject the idea of government interference in the free market.
“...we wired the garage AND THE PANEL for this 60 Amp/240V circuit...”
And years ago, I thought I was the bees fleas when I built a 24x30 garage with a separate panel including a 50 amp circuit for a 5hp planer. LOL! I like your Tim “The Toolman” Taylor thinking.
“My 2,500SF house has no place to put solar that doesn’t face north.”
TeslaGator will tell you to buy a bigger house...one facing the proper direction...and install copious quantities of solar panels. He also expects you to pull money out of the same place he pulls his answers out of...
heh. Even so the utility company decided pretty soon after occupancy that they needed to replace the transformer on our pole. No charge to us.
Funny thing is, when we added residential solar last year, they replaced it again, no charge.
When the power goes out for three days after a Hurricane it’s nice to know you COULD have gotten drinking water for your family faster if you had this charger.... well, if you had power.
“10 years hence:
Will there be a gas station available where I’m going?
Will it allow me to buy enough juice to get back home?
These are the questions a lot of old fashioned ICE auto owners are asking........................”
Well, here’s the key question to ask themselves,”Am I going to vote for this? “
This insanity can be stopped cold in its tracks if the people currently driving ICEs, who are the vast majority, would vote to do so.
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