the better to control you with, my dear.
EV boosters don’t care about the math. They don’t care about the grid. They don’t care about the pollution. They don’t care about the true total cost and inconvenience of owning an EV.
They want you to run your life and make themselves “feel” better.
This seems to be mostly about the US, with prices in dollars, but why “underground car park”? “Car park” is British for “parking lot.”
Total kWh consumed: 20,890 kWh
Total kWh EV charging (home): 4,922 kWh
Rest of house (excluding charging EV): 15,968 kWh
Total miles (home charged): 15,898
Pulled from the grid: 4,224 kWh
So home charging to drive 16K miles per year would be 24% of my power bill for my all-electric home if I didn't have solar providing 80% of my power I consume. This backs up the article's overall statement that charging an EV is a yuge part of a home's power consumption.
I don't know how many people do local driving of 16K miles per year. (Actually part of that 16K miles is trip driving too, since the first leg of each trip is charged at home the night before I head out for the trip.) And here in Alabama we run the AC more months than we run the heat. (I point out AC since the article rightly compares AC use with EV charging).
Obviously if I had gas heat then I'd have less total power consumption (thus the EV would be a higher portion of my overall power consumption). But the flip side to that is my A/C is a variable speed heat pump and my water heater is a hybrid water heater; basically being all-electric increases my power consumption while my other home energy improvements lowers my power consumption. So in many ways my home power consumption #'s aren't average.
“”to fully charge””
Once again, every manual I can find has recommended charging procedures and methods to PROLONG the life/condition of the battery. Do not charge to over 80%, and do not let the charge fall below 20%. Whether it is a single, small battery, Bluetooth headset, or an EV, they are all susceptible to damage from things like “fast charging.” Fast charging decreases the overall life of the battery. About 2 years ago, Finland was touting their new supercharger that would charge an EV in 15 minutes (no mention of the overall damage to the battery).
And, of course, as many know, their ultimate goal is to limit our freedom as much as possible. One of the many reasons that they cannot stand President Trump is he proved America can be energy independent. Drill Baby Drill is not just a catchy slogan. We have only drilled a few miles into the Earth. There are thousands of years of hydrocarbons under our feet. Inexpensive, abundant energy equals more freedom, and the democRATS despise freedom.
Now tally up the line losses. It'll be a signficant fraction, if not more than, 90 kWh.
Now tally up the line losses. It'll be a signficant fraction, if not more than, 90 kWh.
I have a Model 3 LR in DFW grid lock inch inch traffic it gets 130-150wh per mile, outside the urban core it uses 220 to 250 to do 75mph with the AC cranked up. The regen braking and slow average speeds are what an EV excells at. Just sitting at a stand still or in a parking lot with the AC on blast it’s 1.5kwh per hour average over a whole hour in 100F Texas heat. It peaks higher but the avg use is 1.5 or lower for those curious. It has a 75kwh pack and leaving a 10% reserve would be 67.5 kwh or 45 hours of a.c. I never ever worry bout using the AC while sitting it in with my laptop on the phone with clients.
I have a large two zone 4500+ sqft home it uses 80kwh per day or more from July to September every day to keep 68F in the bedrooms and 72 in the living spaces. I have a split unit in the master bedroom just to keep that at 65F for myself.
That Model 3 goes to Ft Worth on the regular a few times per month a 125 mile round trip. It uses 23 kwh to make that trip net. More typical use daily use is 20 miles round trip to the half naked sports bar four cities over. In that case it uses 4.5 kwh in a day. From a grid point of view it’s irrelevant as the large solar system on the roofs plural generate so much electricity that the power company pays me for the excess. I have a 15,000 w ahh system on the main structure , 10,000 more on the steel building that hold my cars ,boat and workshop. Both so far today in sunny Texas have made 150kwh and will cross 200 for sure this sunny afternoon before sunset.
I just looked at the smart meters via the app the main structure has used 65kwh and the steel building and ADU aka the mother-in-law pod has used 10. I could have charged three Tesla for a round trip to FT.W which is 7 cities away round trip or 16 Tesla for 20 mile round trip daily uses and the day is not over yet I’ll get another 50+ kwh before sub set. This is after the usage for A.C. And all the home loads. Texas get SUN in the summer 220 days per year of full sun at this latitude with the shortest day being 10 hours of daylight and the longest is 14+
You know what’s most important to me? Other than unlimited free miles of energy for as far as I could ever want to drive for the next 22 years left on the 25 year panel lifetimes. The dotgov can NEVER turn off the sun they can, have and will turn off gasoline pumps. No one has a working oil well and a functional refinery to make gasoline in the backyard let alone the back 40 acres. In two years or less I’ll turn in my Telsa for another one the battery life is irrelevant when it’s a lease and under warranty for every mile driven. It’s also cheaper per month than the S60 Volvo it is replacing so capex is half per mile or less.
I get it some boomers.don’t like EVs but in reality that generation is on the way out and it’s buying power by numbers of people and volume of sales is not enough to justify catering to them anymore from a corporate view point. In ten years or less the boomers will be gone or so small in number relative to GenX, Y and Z to be irrelevant from a purchasing block. Same goes for political power the younger generations now outnumber the older by two going on three to one. Demographics is destiny. The higher wealth people, wealth matters income does not, definitely want driving to be more expensive and more for the upper classes as cities grow in population it’s physically impossible to build more roads in the available space you must price people off the road and into public transportation. The best way is toll lanes with congestion pricing everywhere all the time. Dallas does this so does Houston it works gangbusters, right behind that should be congestion pricing to enter the urban core and also cost per mile for every mile. Driving is a privilege don’t think so try driving without a state issued licence and valid insurance jail will.follow shortly. Freedom of movement does not include personal vehicles those are a privilege. You can walk,bike, take a bus, subway, uber ect that’s what’s a right driving is not period full stop and the courts already rules as such. Ask any DUI person about the steps needed to keep the privilege after the state says you are a danger on the road. These are unpopular facts but facts none the less. During the pandemic is was so nice when the roads where empty it shows what I would be like with 50% or less cars on the existing system and it makes all the high wealth people want exactly that.
Today’s 50-kva transformers, which cost about $8,000 each, can power about 60 homes; that number drops closer to 40 if each of those homes houses one electric vehicle, closer to 30 with two EVs using home chargers.
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Problem here. House entry is typically 100 amp, or 22KVA. One 50KVA transformer is not going to service 60 homes. Maybe six homes and that’s pushing your luck.
Sounds like a decimal point got moved somewhere. We all do that one.
Otherwise, thanks for posting.
I have been watching to see when EV charging stations are available at the public housing project facilities south of Chicago. When those folks successfully embrace the change for a while without hardship, I will go next. But not before.