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EV charging
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As EV adoption moves out of the second decimal point of the first percentage point to the first decimal point, that’s when I think grim reality will set in regarding the inconvenient truths about widespread adoption of EV’s. Naive EV buyers will have Level 2 charging stations installed in their homes (which I think are essentially 50amp/240volt RV shore power outlets) and suddenly find they can’t charge their car, run the house A/C, dry clothes in the electric dryer, heat hot water in the electric water heater, cook a turkey in the electric oven, warm up pizza in the microwave, wash dishes in the dishwasher, and watch TV on the 85″ flat screen.
When they call the power company to find out why, the CSR will be trained to ask if they have switched all their light bulbs to LEDs which take less electricity to power.
How many condo projects are wired or configured to support a Level 2 (50amp/240 volt) EV charging port for every garage stall.
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Tried to stay out of this posting but..
I spend a lot of time in the Bahamas and there are quite a few private Islands (Over Yonder Cay, Highbourne Cay, Cat Cay to mention a few) that have spent a millions on solar panels and battery banks, only to find out they can stay solar only for about 20-30 percent of the time. As soon as the air conditioners start cranking in the summer, desalination plants are running and the restaurants start cooking the old faithful diesel generators have to go back on line. They also incinerate their own trash, but guess what: it takes diesel to heat the burner hot enough to incinerate efficiently. Bunny huggers just don’t want to face the fact that we are a long ways from eliminating fossil fuels.
Chuck
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All of our collective angst over trying to make sense of the mandated switch from fossils fuels to electric vehicles just goes to show how long the technology cycle is in the real world. The news cycle for some purported new battery or power generation technology is only hours long while the real time to implementation is decades or even generations long. One can make a case for micro-nukes and off shore wind being viable substitutes for fossils fuel powered power generation to recharge a largely e-car world, but getting from here to there is way longer than any legislator’s time in office. Mandates when it makes no sense is the only way most can see to make the switch real at some distant point in the future. But, it will be a painful process for our kids and grandkids.
Jerry
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In my previous engineering life designing substations for wind & solar power, my load & generation studies concluded that the contribution to the electrical grid was very minimal and so unreliable that without fossil & nuclear power production rolling blackouts are inevitable with the addition of EV`s charging loads coupled with warmer summers and colder winters.
The snowflakes that migrate to EV`s should research the safety aspect of these. Sitting on top of multiple batteries inside an enclosed vehicle in an accident is just a cremation tomb in my opinion. Media has reported multiple EV fires that cannot be extinquished with traditional means. Use your head !!
I also don`t appreciate EV`s driving on my roads since they don`t pay fuel tax either!!
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I have a good friend in northern MN that works for a data/low voltage electrical contractor. He told me a cute problem that a customer had with a camera system that they bought from another vendor that was a solar only system. It would work fairly well during the summer when there was sunlight fairly often, but was crapping out this winter. My buddy had told them not to buy it as it likely would not work in northern MN in the winter, but they did it anyway. Now they want him to “make it work”. He told then to buy a bunch of batteries, charge them in the office and swap them out every day and it “might” work better. They don’t want to do that and just want him to “make it work”. Last time I talked to him it was still dead as there had been heavy clouds for over a week. He told them there was no fix to it and they should get something else. Still waiting to see how that turns out.
Some of the brain dead politicians have already started thinking about the lack of tax paid by the Duracell cars and are trying to come up with an extra tax on all miles driven by each vehicle you own to make up for it (and then some) from what I have read so far. Proof you can’t fix stupid.
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Some things just don’t make sense.
Look at the car in the front right of the picture. Was getting gas yesterday and some guy parks his Tesla at the pumps while he shopped in the store.
Why at the pumps when there was regular parking in front of the store.Chuck
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Did you ask him why he did that? I’m sure there is a very good reason. Maybe there is “touchless charging” from underneath the car that we just aren’t aware of.
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Blonde. Went in to buy batteries.
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With such a huge service repair backlog in most car dealer service dept, why would anyone buy a new car let alone an EV. Our Sprinter thru a few dash lights, and three different Mercedes dealers, two in Denver and the other in Palm Springs, dealers told me the end of February into March would be soonest they could see it. Then i’d have to leave it for a week or two.
Question: If a business uses sprinter vans, how do they deal with a van in service which could bevout of service for weeks
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We don’t and won’t use Mercedes vans again due to poor service and very high maintenance prices.
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