Posted on 01/09/2024 9:22:11 PM PST by Red Badger
You are grid tied?
The power company is legislated to pay you for power?
Are they triple wrapping the battery with asbestos....
It would sell well to idiots who think that a “green” vehicle should be horrendously ugly, so everyone around them instantly understands that they are doing their part to save the planet.
“The possibility that onlookers might find my conveyance unattractive simply doesn’t factor into my decision.”
Nope. But I have to see it every day. Given a choice, I’m not spending my money on something I think is ugly
Star Wars? Nah … more like Robo Cop or Judge Dred type stuff.
The name ‘Saloon’ seems to me to be on the right track. It’s more what you’d find on the floor of an Old West Saloon, though - the Spittoon.
A lot of concept cars are good looking, thought that van is butt ugly. We never get them in real life though.
He gave you the answer: the grid - the power you and I pay for.
Seriously?!
Where would they be mounted? On the car's roof? Would it function like a perpetual motion machine?
Is this your idea? Or has any automobile manufacturer seriously proposed the use of shoe-box sized wind turbines to power electric (hybrid) vehicles?
Regards,
Yeah, I was gonna say...send it straight to the museum.
***It’s ugly***
Yes. But, in my humble opinion, most of the new cars these days lack beauty. They just look like poorly designed big hunks of black plastic.
Flame away!
They’re trippin’
You beat me to it. 😉
1) supply power to the electrical panels, if there's excess solar power,
2) charge the batteries, if the batteries are charged at least 70% (enough to power the home through the night),
3) power an intermittent circuit for charging the EV with excess power, if there's still excess solar coming in keep charging the batteries.
4) If the batteries are fully charged and there's still more solar coming in than my electrical panels need, sell power to the grid.
If we come home in the EV with more than enough charge for the next day, we plug the EV into an intermittently powered charging circuit. My wife asks for at least 120 miles range for most daily uses. So if the EV has less than 120 miles charge we plug it into the constantly powered circuit (think of that circuit as always on, but not always free). If we come home with more than 120 miles range we plug it into the intermittently powered circuit (not always on, but when it's on it's always free power).
Last year we drove the EV 26K miles, with 16K of those miles charged at home (over 1,300 miles charged at home per month). Yet our total power bills last year was $890 ($74/month). That's for our all-electric home. That's with just recently started selling power to the grid this past fall (thus I sold very little power to the grid).
In year 2024 I expect selling power to the grid to lower the power bills by $15 month on average. I count it as gravy on the top, not a critical feature for whether or not it's worth going solar. That's because state or federal regulations can change (my state of Alabama never had net metering, and the states that did have it are getting away from it). If regulations change in the future to where it's not worth putting power onto the grid, I'll change a few settings on my inverters and quit selling power to the grid. I'll go back to being a normal power customer like everybody else except I'll pull a lot less power from the grid (which is what my relationship with the power company was the first 2 years I had solar).
If I wasn't a software engineer with experience mainly on the backend data processing, my throughput would probably be about 70% of my power free. But because my inverters can export telemetry in 5-minute candles I was able to analyze the throughput to see which parts should be strengthened when I did my upgrade after owning half the system of solar for a year to make sure it would do as expected. I made sure my upgrade was in the points that needed more optimization to take it to 83% average across the year. The point is, you don't have to be a data nerd to get 70% self-reliance on energy if you live in a climate like mine.
When Toyota made their hybrids look like their internal combustion cars instead of their typical Prius look, the sales dropped off significantly.
It turns out that a disproportionate number of people were buying them only to virtue-whine.
...that or to advertise their sexual preferences.
LOL! I believe it!
Yes, yes. That’s why I don’t care about my ugly old ICE vehicles that are paid off and run just fine. At one point however, that ugly ICE vehicle did look pretty good.
Just...
Yuck.
Electric car concept. If gov’t has to force you to buy at very high prices then there is no market.
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