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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
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Mind numbingly stupid.
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
The stupid, it burns....
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ditto and ditto
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
My hat's off to the article's writer.  | |||
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| Does This Avatar Make My Butt Look Big? Minor Deity  |
I always thought those EV chargers were free, but my friends with an EV said you have to pay. Probably a pittance, though. I couldn't own an EV. We only have one car (the Mini), and it needs to get us back and forth to see the kids. | |||
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Electric car charging. https://www.kbb.com/car-news/h...ost-to-charge-an-ev/
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
it costs us about $11 to charge when we drive from PDX to YVR--vs about $60 in gas. | |||
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He did make the article entertaining
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
Indeed. Hard to navigate such a ludicrous premise without sounding simply snarky or outright dumb. | |||
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How long until a gas tax like tax is added to electricity for vehicles?
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It’s too bad they didn’t include any video with that article. The newer chargers operate at some 800 volts and rolling coal over one would be make for some spectacular footage. 
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Has anyone read about predictions of how electricity use would change if everyone were driving electric cars? I'm thinking about the article where it said that electricity is generally cheaper at night (and certainly that's the case where I live). But isn't that because demand is lower at night? What happens if demand is no longer lower at night? BTW I'm just thinking out loud here, by no means do I intend to suggest that my questions here are a drawback to electric cars.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
Based on my vast research (OK, five minutes on google.... ) I'd say the opinions on that are mixed. There are several doomsday articles that the increased demand due to electric cars will destroy the grid.Other, more reasonable articles (in my opinion as to what constitutes "reasonable") point out that the move from partial to nearly 100% electric cars won't happen overnight, giving the grid time to scale up. Cool futuristic articles talk about e-roads, where your car is being charged as you are driving down the road, and/or you are generating additional electricity from driving which is then returned to the grid, etc. Noting that additional power is only carbon neutral if it's coming from clean energy sources (wind, solar, hydro, etc.). | |||
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Current battery technology is resource-intensive. Good discussion from Fareed Zakaria: http://well-temperedforum.grou...053922797#8053922797
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