Texas Plans EV Chargers Every 50 Miles on Major Highways

I thought France shut down their nuclear power plants to go green.
That was Germany, France still has theirs going. Now Germany is going to be short on gas, but not that easy to just fire up the old plants. They shut them down due to the issues at Fukushima Japan back in 2011.
 
Probably not. Some say that the battery packs could last 15 years and maybe by then, they'd do the same thing that gets done with a Prius, someone removes the battery pack and just rebuilds or replaces the individual packs or batteries that are bad and they continue to use it. So instead of dropping 8k or more for a new battery pack, probably just 1-2k for a repair/replacement of a few batteries/section.
If we're talking specifically Tesla, their batteries are manufactured different than anyone else, their cathodes are in a grid which makes it so that just one battery can't be replaced without breaking the connections to all the other batteries in that grid, but maybe someone will build a factory to do it.
 
If we're talking specifically Tesla, their batteries are manufactured different than anyone else, their cathodes are in a grid which makes it so that just one battery can't be replaced without breaking the connections to all the other batteries in that grid, but maybe someone will build a factory to do it.
How exactly do you put cylindrical cells together so their cathode is In a grid?
 
like this

Tesla goes to GREAT lengths to make their vehicles as unfriendly as possible to be worked on, going so far as to hide data they shouldn't be hiding and barely skirting many rules. All so they can protect IP, and while I respect that, I am not Tesla, so I don't care about Tesla's IP, I care about my dollars and what I do with them.
 
I'm just going to go ahead and presume that Tesla will have Uncle Sam fitting the bill for at least the vast majority of very large cost of building a bunch of chargers that won't earn them any money.
 
I'm just going to go ahead and presume that Tesla will have Uncle Sam fitting the bill for at least the vast majority of very large cost of building a bunch of chargers that won't earn them any money.
Not sure I follow... Tesla builds their charging network; they are the only car company to do so. This has been going on for over 10 years.
 
I'm just going to go ahead and presume that Tesla will have Uncle Sam fitting the bill for at least the vast majority of very large cost of building a bunch of chargers that won't earn them any money.

Wrong parasite.

The other guys are going to use YOUR money so freely given away to build a charging network so they don't have to invest like Tesla has.

It's interesting how the " subsidy bandwagon" is absolutely silent about this.
 
That was Germany, France still has theirs going. Now Germany is going to be short on gas, but not that easy to just fire up the old plants. They shut them down due to the issues at Fukushima Japan back in 2011.
hmm, dont think they ever start them again... Will be interesting in winter time if EU goes back to stone age🤔. Or will they forget the war in Ukraine, and start buying natural gas from Russia again 🤔
Electrical bills are 6x more than before and the storm haven't arrived yet
 
hmm, dont think they ever start them again... Will be interesting in winter time if EU goes back to stone age🤔. Or will they forget the war in Ukraine, and start buying natural gas from Russia again 🤔
Electrical bills are 6x more than before and the storm haven't arrived yet
Not sure what they did to the old ones, probably not that easy to start them up again, but 3 were scheduled to shut down at the end of the year, but those they'll probably keep running.
 
Not sure what they did to the old ones, probably not that easy to start them up again, but 3 were scheduled to shut down at the end of the year, but those they'll probably keep running.
Yes, and the three that were shuttered at the beginning of the year are likely able to be restarted relatively easily, if the decision was made to do so.
 
Not sure what they did to the old ones, probably not that easy to start them up again, but 3 were scheduled to shut down at the end of the year, but those they'll probably keep running.
lets hope they keep running them, problem was that they did put to much faith in the NS 2. I knew it would fail.
 
Here is the latest report card from the EIA for electrical production in the USA. Fully 60% is still hydrocarbons and large scale solar is 2.8%. Nuclear is 18.9%.

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There is no way I'm driving across the country in any gas powered vehicle with 300 to 400 thousand. Miles on the odometer. Have you been to the middle of no where Nevada, Wyoming, or Montana? Oh- no cell phone reception BTW.
I have driven that before cell phones were a thing(1992) in a 150k VW Jetta. I did have a pager but completely useless :)
 
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