This could slow down 4xe sales

[rent]

You do realize that there is enough land mass in TX to give nearly every living person in America an acre of land, right?

Not quite. 1/2 Acre, maybe.

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[HungryHound]

Sort of interesting that negative threads against the 4xe stay in this forum while anything positive gets moved to the 4xe forum....

 

[Heimkehr]

Sort of interesting that negative threads against the 4xe stay in this forum while anything positive gets moved to the 4xe forum....

The 4xe was ancillary to the larger discussion regarding the wisdom, or not, of public assistance payments for electric vehicle purchases. As this thread has long since adopted a political stance (meaning Forum Mgmt. could give it the chop at any moment), it makes sense to keep it here instead of moving the convo elsewhere.

 

[tombovo]

Ah yes, because everyone takes road trips all the time



Spent $55k on a jeep, can't afford to spend $1k on getting a 220v installed in their garage.



True, that. Although apartments could install chargers. Could be a bit more complicated than the home garage solution.

EVs are coming, but the heavy handed push is too much too soon. And it will be more than $1000 to run a 220 line. From the front utility room, after spending $500 to upgrade the electric panel on my 2 family house, through the finished basement. And if I am doing that, add a 220 outlet in the laundry room, and run 220 to the front and back for both meters so I could install a mini-split AC system, and now we are in the $5k range, plus needing to redo the damage in the finished basement room.

And I am taking a road trip to see my sister, up north. Road trips are vacations, and I do not want to be stuck waiting to charge up on the road during my vacation.

 

[eddified]

Not quite. 1/2 Acre, maybe.

This is an amazingly accurate guess. I ran the numbers:
* A quick Bing search for the search term "number of people living in america" shows that "The United States had an official resident population of 331,449,281 on April 1, 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau."
* A quick search for "the number of acres in Texas" gives 171,891,840 acres.

Divide the acreage by the population of the US:
171,891,840/331,449,281 => 0.5186067669 acres

So yes, it's a little more than half an acre.

 

[HaydenJMK]

It's early in the process, but if this passes...

https://electrek.co/2021/08/11/us-senate-40000-limit-price-electric-cars-ev-tax-credit/

Curious if those that have already been purchased will be grandfathered into the bill..

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