I live right downtown Carson City. We average 6 power outages per year. Shortest was a few minutes, the longest was a day and a half. I am installing a 22kw Generac generator right now, but like I said, I want solar with battery backup as well. How many watts of installed solar do you have?
20x 400w panels, 13x 480w. 14.24kW. All of the South facing panels are street facing so they are the very beautiful solid black panels we put the ugly commercial panels which are more powerful in the backyard roof lines. The 20 400s are South facing.... 9 480s West, 4 East.
With my auxiliary tank I can go 640 miles in a single drive.
By the way I noticed no one noticed I had 83 miles at 24%. I've heard EV's are "not ready yet" and they have "no range".
I guarantee you my gas Gladiator cannot possibly go 83 miles on a quarter tank.
Imagine how politically biased and algorithm-driven you have to be to think 335 miles is low range and 'not ready yet'. The big V8 blowhards will quote Toyota Prius mileage as their argument what a bunch of fucking cowards.
We should definitely ban all EV development based on your situation. Every car should have an auxiliary tank. This makes total sense.
This would be a lot for someone in an apartment or who has a small yard.20x 400w panels, 13x 480w. 14.24kW. All of the South facing panels are street facing so they are the very beautiful solid black panels we put the ugly commercial panels which are more powerful in the backyard roof lines. The 20 400s are South facing.... 9 480s West, 4 East.
I never said anything remotely like that. I merely stated a fact. I have repeatedly said that for an environment like yours, an EV makes perfect sense.
Lithium mining is incredibly destructive to the environment. It must be strip mined. And you are conveniently ignoring all the other rare earth elements like samarium, yttrium, neodymium, scandium, etc. ALL of which are strip mined, and then need extensive processing to be used, all of which requires the use of incredibly poisonous chemicals to do so. China doesn't care about its people so they get to die pretty horrible deaths from the usage of those chemicals..
Lithium is mined once and used for years, then it can be recycled. Gasoline requires drilling, shipping, refining, and burning oil every single time you drive. One is a front-loaded material input; the other is a permanent daily extraction and combustion cycle. If you’re worried about mining, you should be far more worried about the fuel that has to be pulled out of the ground and burned nonstop just to keep your car moving.
Every time someone trashes EVs, they jump straight to lithium like that’s the end of the discussion. Meanwhile, gasoline has to be drilled, shipped, refined, and burned every single time you drive. My battery materials were mined once and will last for years... and they can be recycled. A gas car requires nonstop extraction and combustion for its entire life. Focusing on lithium while ignoring perpetual oil consumption isn’t a serious comparison.
The lithium argument isn’t really about mining.... it’s political. Nobody suddenly developed deep concern about mineral extraction; they’re fine with constant oil drilling, pipelines, refineries, and wars tied to petroleum. Lithium just became a convenient talking point because EVs are associated with policy shifts and energy transition politics. If this were purely about environmental impact, the same people would be equally critical of the continuous oil system they actively fund every time they fill up.
Gottcha. I was just wondering on your setup. I finally got my panels wired up and everything running like it should before all this rain started coming down. 10x550w ugly panels but they were the right price and they’re pretty much hidden on the ground in the back yard so it’s all good. With Enphase it’s pretty easy to add batteries if I remember right. We get a lot more power outages than yall do down there. I was just happy to pull about 20kW on a cloudy rainy day. I find myself watching my solar production like it’s a Looney Tunes Marathon.
