EV - not ready for the masses?

[Forum Crawler]

Here in Oregon they want to stop all natural gas, coal, and no nuclear. They also want to remove 4 dams. No idea where we are going to get our power from.

They don’t care. The end game in all this EV push is simple, everything tied to a grid and approved corridors of travel.

Rush, Red Barchetta.

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[blau iii]

I see the merits of both sides of this conversation. My garage right now currently has my JT on one side and a Tesla Model 3 on the other. It costs me about $6 to fully charge the car at home vs. $100 for a tank in the JT. The tesla is stupid simple as far as maintenance is concerned. It's fast as fvck. That being said, I have way more smiles driving the JT. There's a time and place for each.

The charging network is getting there, we've done several road trips across PA with no issue.

I did not buy it for the "green" aspects aside from it being time to replace my car and not paying gas helped the decision. If my other car wasn't due to retire, I wouldn't have went out to buy a tesla just to buy one.

I will say this, the acceleration of these things has ruined pretty much any other mainstream car for me. I came from a long line of tuned BMWs, my last was a 335i 6spd with 550hp and I haven't missed that car at all.

 

[Klutch]

They don’t care. The end game in all this EV push is simple, everything tied to a grid and approved corridors of travel.

Rush, Red Barchetta.

Fight the power. Install your own solar panels and wind turbines and charge your EV.

 

[Forum Crawler]

Fight the power. Install your own solar panels and wind turbines and charge your EV.

Doesn’t work well when they geo-fence your E-Jeep…

 

[Klutch]

Doesn’t work well when they geo-fence your E-Jeep…

Restricted corridors? Geo-fencing? I'm very well informed and I have heard absolutely nothing about this.

I can promote a conspiracy theory that the government is working with space aliens to take away our driving privileges, but no matter how much the people who follow my YouTube channel believe it, it doesn't make it true.

 

[Rusty PW]

Restricted corridors? Geo-fencing? I'm very well informed and I have heard absolutely nothing about this.

I can promote a conspiracy theory that the government is working with space aliens to take away our driving privileges, but no matter how much the people who follow my YouTube channel believe it, it doesn't make it true.

When I retired. On my papers. It asked what race. I put down alien/hybrid. I had fun with that one. The company kicked my paperwork back 3 times a then gave up.

 

[AustinL911]

If you mean “it’s not” yet “ready for prime time”, I agree. But it will. We have 6.23 kW rooftop solar and pay $8.06 per month even in summer. We’re shopping for a PHEV that will be charged from the sun. And yes I have a JTR because it isn’t there yet, but it will be. I don’t think we’ll be giving up our 4x4s, just powered differently. Funny you bring up Texas which proved that carbon power isn’t always dependable. Or is it “something about Texas”?

Curious what the parts and install cost was for those panels?

 

[Geoarch]

Curious what the parts and install cost was for those panels?

We paid about 18 grand, but save between 1 and 2 grand a year, particularly since it costs 300-400 during the summer, and in the winter bank even more "net metering" for the summers. It will take about six years to pay it off, then it's all gravy. Lucky to be in New Mexico with 310 average days of sun.

Edit: Forgot - we also got 10000 back off taxes following year between the 26% from Fed and 10% from state. So cost is negligible.

 

[Forum Crawler]

Restricted corridors? Geo-fencing? I'm very well informed and I have heard absolutely nothing about this.

I can promote a conspiracy theory that the government is working with space aliens to take away our driving privileges, but no matter how much the people who follow my YouTube channel believe it, it doesn't make it true.

It was a reference to my earlier comment about “Red Barchetta” by Rush.

Try to keep up kid, for someone so very well informed you should try reading for comprehension next time instead of speed.

 

[Escape.idiocracy]

Why is BLOOM energy not discussed and talked about more?

 

[dcmdon]

Doesn’t work well when they geo-fence your E-Jeep…

They could geofence your gas Jeep just as easily. As long as your LTE transceiver is working, they can shut you down at any time.

 

[Forum Crawler]

They could geofence your gas Jeep just as easily. As long as your LTE transceiver is working, they can shut you down at any time.

Fact.

 

[Klutch]

It was a reference to my earlier comment about “Red Barchetta” by Rush.

Try to keep up kid, for someone so very well informed you should try reading for comprehension next time instead of speed.

You greatly misunderstand me. I've been a Rush fan since the 70s. I read the story which inspired Neil Peart to write "Red Barchetta". Just didn't know if you were speaking from that position.

 

[steve68]

I watched my 70 Nova with a 600 HP big block running pig rich burn a 1/4 tank of gas idling in the drive way! it used to have a stack 200+200 nitrous plate system,

no geo fencing

Big Rush fan!

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