In time, probably over a decade or two EVs will be dominant if I am not being too optimistic. Likely there will still be ICE vehicles on the road for a long time thereafter. Eventually after enough decades, ICE vehicles will be mostly gone.
Texas Plans EV Chargers Every 50 Miles on Major Highways
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I'm sure the Texas power grid will handle this fine.
I hope that fine is sarcastic, they can barely keep their grid working when it gets a bit chilly out. Or hot even as it turns out now. None of the Texas power plants or gas systems were winterized after the other year, people still owed thousands of dollars in surge electric pricing. History will repeat itself because they didn't learn. Privatize profits socialize losses.
We don’t have any here so no problem with lines
Texas has had its grid full fail every 8-10 years ever since they stopped following stronger code and winterizing .
Simple solution but Texas only cares about $$$$ and not about it’s residents.
Activies that serve no purpose and are extremely wasteful should be banned.
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Yes, there's no incentive in the Texas market to build reserve capacity that will seldom be used, because it is all deregulated. The equipment will never pay for itself. The entire concept of the Texas grid (and other deregulated grids) is that the market constituents constantly run the margin, as that's the most profitable, being barely able to meet demand; running on the ragged edge, with just enough capacity to meet demand peaks.
Of course when some of that capacity is offline for maintenance, and you can't depend on fickle wind gen, well, the results are pretty predictable. Nobody operating a grid outside of that type of system ascribes any capacity value to wind gen, because it has none. It's not dispatchable. Capacity is planned based on firm resources and then if wind displaces some of them, well, there you go, you saved some gas or coal. Texas actually plans on there being ~9GW of wind available during the summer, which is totally insane.
Regarding full Supercharger wait times, I just got Tesla OTA update 2022.16.3 which adds number of chargers in use (or down) to its algorithm. This is in addition to the weather conditions (wind, etc) to the recent 2022.16.2 update.
It just keeps getting better.
It just keeps getting better.
Who gets to decide what is and isn't worthy ?
Everyone else is so far behind this its ridiculous.
Texas with their energy grid and all the comp and people moving in are they already building more power plants? And the grid still must be in danger to fail with the brown outs in major cities or am i wrong.
From a tech standpoint, no one else is even in the game. Unless you count heated seats subscription... Just kidding!
Statistically your vehicles are outliers. I don't think I know anyone with cars that have accumulated 300K plus mileage that are in regular use. Actually, my '93 Toyota PU 22RE had the odo quit at about 350K, but that's it.
Mid 200's yes. I have 2 over 200K, Tundra and TSX. They could go anywhere, like yours. Everyone wants my Tundra; it's not for sale!
There is a Tesla Model S with over 1M miles; now there's an outlier for ya.
Realistically, 1% of cars make it past 200K and .03% roll over the 300K mile mark, which is pretty incredible.
Well done, regardless. You are getting your money's worth and then some.
Preferably me, I have no bias and treat everyone equally terrible .
I had 438,000 miles on my 1982 Diesel suburban which was retired due to extreme rust
My Honda Insight was over 300,000 (still have it for parts, ugly body and needs an ecu) , Buick Lesabre 300,000, 1993 GMC Suburban 350 239,000 miles junked due to rust and a bad fuel pump
I don’t drive as much so likely am done with big miles
No term limits is WA state, and seems like nobody can get in that position to bring some logical reality back. WA state is actually more aggressive on making only new EV sales and no more new ICE starting in 2030 than CA, which is slated for 2035.
Another totally illogical thing going on here is they want to remove 4 of the largest dams that produce 25% of all the electricity ... yet, they want to ban the sale of ICE cars/trucks starting in 2030 to have way more EVs on the roads. So where is all the future needed electricity going to come from 8-10 years from now? I haven't heard any talk of building new nuclear power plants or any other plans to meet the electrical power demands 8-10 years from now. Don't these people who dream this stuff up have any actual technical experts advising them of the future pitfalls of their unrealistic goals?
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Well it's the same with gas stations. EVs have gauges just like cars do so if you know you're going to be in the middle of nowhere, you just have to be more mindful about what your charge level is at. One big assumption here is that people won't adapt. But if you know you'll be stuck, you'll make sure it doesn't happen or doesn't happen again.And stay on only major/main roads. Not going to find many, if any, charges on most of the back roads.
Don't worry, EVs are the soon to be new revenue source as more and more hit the roads. The "free ride" will end soon because nobody in the revenue department will let potential revenue slip through their greedy hands.
The other thing is that many people can just charge at home with their own level 2 charger which will give them about 12-60 miles of range per hour. Then you're just paying the electric company per kilowatt. The only thing they've done so far is jack up the cost of registration as EVs don't really pay gas taxes which are used to maintain the roads.
But don't worry, no matter how cynical you get, you just can't keep up.
What I'm saying is if I wanted to take a 300 mile cruise around the back roads in an EV I'm probably not going to find many, if any, charging stations ... yet, there are small gas stations all over the back roads. Of course people also run out of gas in an ICE due to bad planning ... but the point is there simply are not charging stations located all over the back roads where as there are gas stations.
Don;t worry ... that will change as time goes on, and EV owners won't keep getting the same free ride they are currently getting. They will be paying more in the future to own an EV for power and road use ... just wait and see. You have to boil the frog slowly before the frog is ready to eat.
What's that suppose to mean?
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Think the blame for this should be on utility companies for not investing in upgrading/modernizing the grid over the last few decades. Utilities need to get their act together and start investing more in modernizing and upgrading the grid.
If fast chargers on major hwys become common, range anxiety will be reduced increasing acceptance.
Even though probably for 90+ percent of drivers a single charge would be enough to get to our daily destinations, some of us will occasionally take a long trip.
Even though probably for 90+ percent of drivers a single charge would be enough to get to our daily destinations, some of us will occasionally take a long trip.
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Short answer? No.
I don’t have ac so I must be fine
