Climate activists declare war on ‘gas guzzler’ cars... by vandalising an electric Tesla

Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | January 7, 2024 | India McTaggart

[grundle]

Environmental activists who have declared war on “gas guzzler” cars have vandalised an electric-powered vehicle.

The controversial group, who call themselves the Tyre Extinguishers, targeted a Tesla car in Clifton, Bristol.

The owner was out walking his dog while the group deflated his tyres and left their signature leaflet on the windscreen, which states: “Your gas guzzler kills.”

It does not mark the first time the activists have seemingly erroneously deflated the tyres of electric vehicles, with a similar incident on a Tesla in the London area of Notting Hill last year.

[rlmorel]

Maybe we should educate them that the cars are not only Coal and Oil powered, but also Nuclear powered.

Who has the popcorn?

[rlmorel]

Is 83% of your home’s power being stored in batteries so you can use the power generated, or is it fed back into the power grid to take money off your bill?

Just curious.

[Tell It Right]

Is 83% of your home’s power being stored in batteries so you can use the power generated, or is it fed back into the power grid to take money off your bill?

I store in batteries. I only recently started selling power to the grid (since October) when my batteries are full. So I haven't put much onto the grid being fall and winter weather. And even then I make about 1/4th in cents/kWh that I pay for power when I need it. So I don't count putting power onto the grid as "storing it for myself for later". I count putting power onto the grid as a little gravy on top. The main financial benefit is from not needing to pull much power from the grid to begin with.

When I say 83% of my power is free it's from solar and batteries. I consumed 20,446kWh in power last year (how much power flowed through my electrical panels), but had to pull only 3,440kWh from the grid (16.8% of my power had to come from the grid). That's for an all-electric two-story home, charging the EV for 16K miles (not counting the 10K miles we charged the EV away from home on trips we made that had good charging options).

It doesn't save the world or anything like that. But it does give my wife and me a level of self-reliance we didn't have before. So the Dims' stupid energy policies have less control over us.

[IYAS9YAS]

It doesn't save the world or anything like that. But it does give my wife and me a level of self-reliance we didn't have before

In our area, they want to sell systems with no battery backup and that will shut off in blackouts so they don't energize the line to prevent safety hazards (rather than disconnect from the grid). I told them that was a stupid way to do things and that I wanted a grid disconnect and battery backup. Most couldn't supply that. Some could. The other issue is the current power company infrastructure will only allow a limited amount of consumers to pump excess electrons back to the grid. A lot of folks were suckered into systems they cannot hook up due to this issue because they wanted to sell the excess back.

[Tell It Right]

My inverters have the feature to turn off grid sell. That’s how I had them set the first two years. Basically, the power company didn’t know I had solar. I was just a normal customer that pulled power from the grid like everyone else except that I pulled a lot less than most people.

I didn’t start selling power to the grid until I did the research to make sure that my state doesn’t add regulations that would make selling power to the grid disadvantageous for me. For one, my inverters have the safety feature to stop putting power onto the grid if the grid goes down (so I don’t harm men working on downed lines). Thus my power utility allows my inverters to supply my home power even if the grid is down.

There’s a lot of research to do like that before going solar.

[BobL]

Considering how much energy is required to produce a Tesla, I’d say they got it right here.

[rlmorel]

I admire your approach. I presume you live in the Southwest.

The ONLY way I would ever consider solar panels is the way you did. What kind of batteries are you storing the energy in-banks of lead-acid, or do you have a more exotic type like the Tesla storage cells?

[Sirius Lee]

Aren’t tesla’s equipped with cameras?

Yes but Britain’s police are equipped with DEI so there will be the same level of enforcement used as is being applied by our police against blm or antifa or hamas.

[dforest]

They aren’t known for having any brains. They are programmed mush.

[Tell It Right]

What kind of batteries are you storing the energy in?

I have LifePo4 batteries (lithium ion). Total 92kWh storage. Since I drain them no more than 70%, count it as 63kWh usable storage.