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We had a friend that thought a billion dollars was 2 million, bi-million. Kind of like a bicycle has 2 wheels or cycles. So by his math a trillion dollars is 3 million, tri-million. He was a retired English teacher from NY.
I too live in a rural community. No natural gas here either. I heat with wood, have for forty years now, when it gets cold just put more wood in the stove. I have no idea how much CO2 I have pumped into the environment, and frankly I don't care. The trees and everything green needs CO2. You ask the greenies how low is too low for CO2 in the air and you don't get an answer. It actually was approaching too low a few decades ago and now is reviving. I like plants and I also like the oxygen they produce. If the climate warms up a bit, so much the better. A bit of topic but what the heck...
I live on the Gulf Coast and after hurricane Katrina hit, my natural gas stove still worked. We cooked food on our stove and ran our GASOLINE generator to keep our food from spoiling the whole week we were without power. I couldn’t imagine if we would have only had an EV, would have been screwed.
Damn i hadn't thought of throwing a bucket of water in before closing the lid and turning it on.Thank-you TB,i'm gonna try that idea.
Every time I see a relative pollution chart of electric producing generating plants, nuclear is always near the bottom.
At my age with blue hands , that sounds like us in bed at night.
Honda here. There was some news from NYC where there was an electric bike being charged short out, and surveillance showed one of the bikes lithium batteries short/blow up and burned down whole store. NOW that would concern me. YUP, Honda work fine, lol. No EV FER me.
MISTER FUSION FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!! No such thing as a free lunch for anything. Unless your a politician. Then everything is paid for by the taxpayer, so, IT'S FREE.
I like the idea of hydrogen power, and have for many years. However, it remains a very expensive way to power a vehicle. It cost a lot more to produce than fossil fuels.
Yeah I agree that in extreme cold environments where people can expect to see sub 30F, it may not be the wisest decision but even if in places like Southern Idaho where it's not very long of a season of weather that cold, it's still a great choice for daily driving. Now, for folks who drive longer distances all the time and don't have superchargers every 50 miles at least (or so) it's probably not too wise. Now, if you're like me and you daily drive 20 miles total in a day, I just plug in when I get home and wake up with another 80% charge and pre-condition in the winter. The biggest annoyance is the fact people do not do their own research and prepare for long term ownership. They just blindly buy a car and find out later it wasn't a wise decision. Wait, people do this with ICE vehicles too . There's no accountability for that though and reported in articles at least for Tesla. I'm no Tesla fan boy but damn I love driving them. Buying process, ownership, support, and maintenance is so easy and seemless. Sure battery replacement might be expensive. I don't keep any vehicle beyond 8 years and 120k miles though so no biggie.
I kinda disagree, not ref uninformed PPL, too many of them nowadays, but EV, but yer dime, yer ride, drive and enjoy. If it works for you, hey, yer bizness.
Depends on where you live and the grid and whether or not it can support so many EVs. California is the place that will learn the hard way why trying to push EV ownership is a bad idea and their grids will certainly experience brown-outs. The silly hatred over a new technology, and the people on the road who drive it and decide to buy one, now that takes a certain level of ignorance. I'm a conservative and love conservative values. I never bought a Tesla to save the planet. That's dumb. I bought one because I like tech, I like the immediate torque and they're just fun. I'm also a truck guy. Love to have both. It's somehow a crazy thought for people to believe there are folks like me out here who love having a gas-guzzling, dirt ripping truck and an EV.
Me too. Have two vehicles, a RAM 2500 CTD, and a Nissan Leaf (the poor man's EV). The car has a nominal 200 mile range, depending on time of year. In western Washington the temperatures rarely get to the extremes, so an EV is useful year round. We pay on average $0.13 per kWh, so an EV is economical to drive. I hardly ever charge anywhere other than home, so it is a viable vehicle for us. Very low maintenance, I did recently flush the brake lines and I think the 12 volt battery needs to be replaced soon. By the way, I just replaced the batteries in the RAM, $370 for two Interstate AGMs!! (The previous owner had replaced one, so they had a short life!)
You're a great example of why having one works and works well. They shall not ever be primary transportation choice without having infrastructure to back it up but I don't think it should ever be the primary choice, regardless. I pay 8 cents per kwh so it's really a great choice for us. For my wife to doordash or lyft she's averaging $2 max in energy cost in a day. That's when she's driving 70 to 100 miles worth. From August to December when compared to a gas car getting 32 to 35 mpg, we saved $700. Hell that payed for two months of car payments. We're definitely on track to saving 5k or more in a 4 year period for sure.
