If you're not willing to surf in cold weather then maybe you're just not that dedicated.
Leaving this one here for you too. So again, you’re right it’s not an active “Ice no, ev yes” but the effect of their enforcement is making it much more difficult or manufacture ice engines. There is more than just carrots going on.
The solar panels go on your house, thus the charging at home? Most add an energy storage system these days, thus you can still charge your car using solar energy at night. Bury your head in the sand, do nothing, burn up all of the world's non-renewable fossil fuels, and fuck our great grand children, they can just walk everywhere? Only a fool thinks any energy source is 100% clean. The idea that a battery pack that can be recharged thousands of times is worse than the status quo of pumping, piping, shipping, refining, shipping, and then burning up fossil fuels is insane. Perfectly clear and impact free? Of course not. More renewable and sustainable? Obviously. The anti-ev crowd is hilarious, "they have to mine the lithium, EV bad". Where do they get all the metals in your ICE vehicle? Mines. Gold, platinum, iron ore, copper mines are fine, but draw the line at lithium right?
Cleaner and greener are better words for EVs. Not clean and green by any stretch. I 've read that it takes 3-8 years for them to catch up and pass ICE in terms of being better for the environment. So day 1 an EV or PHEV is not greener and if a owner replaces it every few years, the ev may actually have been more harmful for the time the owner had it. All depends on where you get your electricity from. Mines a combo of nuclear and natural gas, so overall me running in ev mode is better than me using gas. The title of greenest (literally and figuratively) jeep on my block though is the TJ up the street. The owner originally bought it in 2006, drives 3000 miles a year and has no intention of replacing.
exactly....the environmental damage done before you even drive that EV off the lot far surpasses what driving a modern low emissions gas vehicle for a few years does. People have all these "feel good" misconceptions about EVs on a grand scale. I have no problems with them as a niche product....great for inner cities and urban places where driving is limited, charging stations can be plentiful, the localized emissions will be reduced, and the environmental activists can live in a happy bubble. But to have the federal government set a date a few years from now to tell the entire country that this has to be they way.....thats absolutely reckless and misguided.....ESPECIALLY when you see who has their interests in things like Lithium in Afghanistan and China.
home solar panels dont charge a home....they off-set the electrical load on the house and grid. do you have solar panels on your home? i do....when the grid goes down from a storm/black/brownout you dont maintain power in your home...no matter how bright the sun shines. And when they need to do local line work from storm damage or maintenance...they have to come and shut-down the house so you dont backfeed the system and electrocute the workers. You really are conflating separate things....you get home from work at 6pm....your home solar panels arent recharging your car that you plug in overnight....the fossil fuel power plant is.
The average vehicle on the road is 12 years old, well past the break even point. Unless you total a car every 2 years, over the lifespan of the vehicles the EV is still far greener wether you are still driving it or someone else is. Obviously anyone buying a new vehicle every 2 years doesn’t give a damn about their impact on the environment. That 3-8 year estimate is far too general, here is a more real world breakdown. If your electricity comes from hydroelectric or solar, the break even point is as little as 8k miles. That’s months in a commuter vehicle not years. If your electricity is 100% coal sourced, it will be 80k+ miles before you break even
Yes, many of them are having issues with the vehicle not performing as they think it should perform rather than how it is supposed to perform.
I can’t tell if you’re dense or only read half what I say. Most people running EV’s these days are also using an energy storage system with their solar (Tesla power wall or other battery bank) as I clearly stated in my last post. Yes the solar does charge your house (actually the batteries in/on your house). A simple transfer switch will allow you to disconnect your home from the mains and still use your solar/energy storage in a power outage (not to mention my power has been out a total of ~8hrs in the last decade). My power comes primarily from hydroelectric plants and a bio waste fueled plant, so even if I charge from the grid it is not fossil fuels. We get it, your plan is to burn up all the fossil fuels and then become Amish, doesn’t work for me.
solar battery banks are great especially for off-grid use....they are not common in suburban and urban homes by any means. They are much more expensive, take up more room in the house (especially if they are the sole energy source) and have a shelf-life that makes it not at all economical for the common suburban/urban house.
I stay away from that site. Most threads are 1 post posters writing in about either the vehicle shutting down on the highway or a CEL. Most post and dont come back, which is no help to anyone searching for answers. Would be nice if they came back and updated with any fixes that were done.
May want to check again , there seems to be some back and forth . Didn't pay attention to the name of the thread but it is more than a couple of pages .
