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To: Tell It Right

Oh I agree, but within those limitations I’m sure I could make a Rivian go through the snow.


43 posted on 03/25/2023 6:42:14 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: VTenigma
True that. And the weight of the EV truck's battery helps you with your weight addition for traction. And to your point, the EV trucks are powerful for carrying or towing a heavy load.

But to my point, their range is sorely limited in both cold or carrying weight. So unless the job is a quick job it wouldn't get the job done. That's the main reason when my wife and I decided that one our cars should be an EV to save gas, it would be her car (a crossover) instead of my truck. The math works really well for us, especially with a large solar array for our all-electric home.

Solar provides 80% of our power for free, including charging the EV (for local driving). I wish I could provide my own energy for the ICE truck, but I can't drill and refine my own oil. Nor can I drill my own natural gas. Same with coal. If I could produce those energy types on my own I would because they're way better than solar. But solar is the one energy source I can tap into without the Dims and their regulators getting in between me and it. That one feature about solar makes it very attractive to me. It's really nice being in a situation where I have to buy only about 1/4th of the energy we consume. The EV is part of that financial engineering. I doubt I would have gotten an EV if I wasn't trying to be mostly energy independent.

57 posted on 03/26/2023 5:10:24 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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