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Or not when solar becomes too much of the mix - and it’s changing constantly …
Big Ford EV Announcement Coming Aug 11th
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No one wants to face this truth. So they bury it to the public.
Not only that it’s if the entire public that will bare the cost of upgrading the grid for EV owners?
Not fair.
Really the fairest way would be a surcharge on EV charging. This alone should be high enough to pay the cost of grid updates leaving non car owners and gasoline owners electric rates alone.
Think about it seriously. Oil companies pay the cost to keep their systems functioning and up to date including manufacturing gasoline and it’s in the price of fuel. I do expect something like this if we ever get close to double digit acceptance of EVs
No free ride.
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Yeah, I find the timing off for LNG exports when AI is about to go through the roof. Every GW of green must have backup - often GTG - now that is the same plan AI has in many cases …
As for EV’s - I’d only bring back incentives for those who are buying both the EV and the means to charge - even a “reverse meter” scenario like Jeff …
GTG’s have self powered industrial plants - and sold excess to the grid for many years in various states …
Since you bragged about it being "free", show us how you came up with that.
Lots of ways to compute the cost, from simple to complex.
Assuming you charge solely from a paid off array and not the grid, it could be whatever the installed cost of the battery is / the amount of cycles its expected to live.
Or you could work up a leveled cost per KWH factoring in efficiency, degradation, expected cycles and replacement cost including the cost of the money over time.
Im a big fan of solar, but when discussing it with a group of detail oriented guys, I choose my words carefully.
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They already have this in Europe.
https://www.ford.ie/support/how-tos/electric-vehicles/home-charging/what-is-dynamic-charging
Yes. But no one is doing it here.
Europe has roads where the speed limits change based on traffic and weather. Europe has high speed trains, that run on time - at least in Germany. Here we still use inches and feet.
Real time Pricing for electricity has been around for at least 30 years in commercial / industrial.
Do you know how expensive hydrogen is? It's already dead on arrival.
I owned a couple of the 300/6. All mine came with the NP 4 speed. That engine came out in 1965 - along with the 240 - well outside my 40 year window.
I did not choose 40 years randomly.
What I like to tell people is that hydrogen is the big lie.
Does the capital, fuel and operating costs of this reactor make for a liquid fuel that will be cost competitive with gasoline? How will you get it from the reactor to the dispensing point?
Technically possible does not necessarily mean comercially feasible. People just keep insisting that they're going to find a way to make hydrogen comercially feasible as a transportation fuel. I personally don't see it, but, they're welcome to keep trying as it certainly burns clean!
With a miniscule fraction of the performance. And around town, it would definitely go farther than the Model T even in cold weather.
Who said training investments are not required for new ICE models either?
I wonder what it costs to get a Cadillac franchise. Anyway...
Buick and Cadillac have the two oldest buying groups by brand. Lexus is a close 3rd. Those brands are dyeing out, just like Olds and Pontiac did long ago. There are too many brands.
When we only had 3 manufacturers it made sense. There are 20 OEM's competing now. The different brands dillute there efforts, IMHO.
I said free nights, because that's how the plan is billed. I don't pay for what I use at night. The tradeoff is a much higher daytime rate. But I also don't use power during the daytime. The cost is all in the upfront investment. It was $22,500 w/ the tax credit. I was spending $3,800 on power annually, plus another $3,800 on gas. So my annual savings is ~$7,200. MB31 LFP has 8,000 cycles. Panels are warrantied for 87% at 25 years. My average price per kWh was 1.3 cents on my last bill. There's a flat $10 for the plan, plus I sometimes exceed my hardware's rating and there's small constant draw from the grid.
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