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Bulking up the grid is arguably something everyone should have been doing anyway. -- nm

Posted by Reagen Aug 11 '22, 13:24

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I mean, how else are people going to mine bitcoin? -- nm - Roger More Aug 11, 14:46
can one charge their EV from solar panels at their own home, or does that require more juice? -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 13:51 7
- An ebike, yes. A car? Depends how big your solar array is. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 13:55 3
  - I think I want an e-bike -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 14:04 2
    - They're an underrated tool of the pre-apocalypse -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 14:08 1
      - (And for the post apocalypse, now I want to see Mad Max but with cargo bikes) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 14:08
- Depends on your setup. Unless you have dedicated storage it's impossible to say what "your" energy is - Reagen Aug 11, 13:55 2
  - good points, I guess I was thinking of a complicated system where you stored energy by day and used it to charge at night -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 14:05 1
    - Can be done. Probably more trouble than it's worth. -- nm - Reagen Aug 11, 14:07
We have an energy grid across the country and for a century the car industry has been… - Mop Aug 11, 13:38 10
- stations are inefficient to supply but highly efficient to use for refueling - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 13:51 9
  - The 350kW ones that are being installed will get stops down to <10 minutes, and it's only going to go up from there. - Reagen Aug 11, 14:03 6
    - A bunch of parking garages here their in EV charging for free with the cost of parking, for instance - Reagen Aug 11, 14:06 5
      - yes the tech will improve but so will the number of BEVs on the road. already the Telsa lines from Vegas to LA on highly traveled weekends are bananas - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 14:10 4
        
        But it's fungible! The roads themselves could be upgraded to charge them while the cars drive. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 14:15 3
        
        (Okay, fine, "fungibility" as a concept might not exactly apply here.) -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 14:16 2
        
        It totally applies, more than other places. NFTs have ruined a perfectly cromulent word - Reagen Aug 11, 14:20 1
        
        Yeah, I think it's only been tried a few times. Barely works as a POC. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 14:52
  - Not to mention the large amount of people that don't have a house in which to have a home charger. -- nm - Todd Manning Aug 11, 13:58 1
    - yep, which in urban centers with as more renters than homeowners is . . . a lot! -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 14:00
the US auto industry has been a 100-yr experiment in "do you want to drive something smaller and cost-effective or do you want to hit some dingers?!" - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 13:34 11
- I hope that the EV switch leads to a thousand flowers blooming - Reagen Aug 11, 14:11 1
  - one would hope. devil's advocate in me still thinks US automakers (and Germany/Japan to lesser extent) just don't want to go EV except at gunpoint - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 14:24
- You did not just take a shot at Ford, did you? -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 13:41 8
  - Ford needs the piss taken out of them. Dodge, moreso. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 11, 13:57 3
    - I read his post as everyone should drive a Leaf, and as a shot at the F-150 lightning. Which I might have misconstrued, because that is dumb -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 14:02 2
      - not that they should or shouldn't. just that whenever Detroit has had a choice, they've always gone for big and inefficient but pricier than competing - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 14:07 1
        
        We need those trucks in flyover country. BTW, it is great to see you posting -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 14:08
  - the same Ford that wanted to be Volkswagen before there was Volkswagen? -- nm - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 13:52 3
    - Since Volkswagen started in the 30s, we are into history and I am not following you. If you explain yourself, I might even agree. I'm lost -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 13:53 2
      - Henry Ford, not a fan of the Jews -- (link) - hollywood big shot Aug 11, 13:56 1
        
        Yeah, I heard that. I also heard that Henry Ford was dead. -- nm - crash davis Aug 11, 14:00

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