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Scale your battery charging observations (concerns) to the next level of automotive products, heavy trucks, construction, and mining equipment. These vehicles are single-purposed to perform heavy work. EV batteries do not scale well here. They can't be recharged while the operator sleeps at home all comfy in his bed. These vehicles are run constantly in some cases and operators are changed out. These vehicles use the same fuels as light-duty cars and pickup trucks. Taking away the gasoline fuel market for light-duty vehicles (where EV sort of works) effects the heavy-duty vehicle market because gasoline and diesel (and jet fuel) are refined at fixed ratios. That means diesel can't be produced without gasoline as an adjacent product of refining oil. These ratios are fixed by trillions of dollars of refinery hard infrastructure. So when you want to advance the state of the art of light-duty EV you are inadvertently creating a downstream effect on other parts of the economy that will raise the price of everyday items and limit the availability of products and services. This is why I advocate to advance the more efficient combustion of gasoline and diesel. Batteries are limited and antiquated thinking. Last edited by Efthreeoh; Yesterday at 06:41 AM.. |
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The whole thing felt uncomfortable to me, like watching someone's home movie of his little kids running around naked in the back yard.
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That will be enough common sense and clear thinking from you, mister. Please return to our regular emotionally driven drivel masking as facts.
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In your example, the thing that scares me most is the downstream, like you mentioned. I don't see a single negative to every delivery truck being an EV; mail, packages, shelf-stocking, logistics. However, reserving oil-products/diesel for exclusively-heavy lifters would be horrendous: I'm trying to imagine how much it'd cost to excavate and prep land for a residential build if the larger machines were the main and only consumers of fuel. As if housing prices aren't high enough now! I think I disagree with the refinery/infrastructure POV, though. Plenty of previously-booming infrastructure and business has dried up; when's the last time you went into a vacuum repair store? (Obviously a low-brow example, but a just one.) How much longer will the car dealership model continue to be a smart real estate investment as more and more manufacturers move to partial online sale offerings? Growing pains are growing pains but the world's still spinning. I think we all know how it's going to go. Promised, "hard" deadlines that get pushed further and further to the right every 5 years; but it's these looming, truthfully soft deadlines that drive innovation toward better battery technology, range improvements, EV tire technology, etc; one might argue that without a deadline (even a fake one), no one would push the envelope without huge financial benefits, which EVs are not, currently.
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Charging in TX might get exciting this Summer. The Green Insanity rolls on, even in TX.
August power prices for Dallas have jumped to $168.70 a megawatt-hour, the highest level in five years for this time of the year, and an 82% premium versus a year earlier. Gee, I wonder why. https://twitter.com/tracyalloway/sta...5Es1_&ref_url= |
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New product is robotaxi, when the big man has claimed the August 8 date... times a ticking to keep his genius rolling...
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I suspect we are also going to need powerful computers on the car and currently those will take a lot of space and power. Probably doesn't help with people like Musk thinking humans only need eyes to drive - so fixed cameras can work as well - no my eyes and head are mobile and neural net that's taken decades to train to comprehend the world. I think This xkcd sums it up |
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Tesla’s move this week to lay off much of the team responsible for creating the largest and most successful electric-vehicle charging network in the U.S. threw the industry into a state of shock and confusion. The layoffs halted construction work at a dozen Supercharger sites in Texas. In New York, property owners in negotiations with Tesla were told the company was withdrawing from discussions about adding chargers to their sites. |
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If you are using the meter to check whether you have RF emissions, get an idea of the power and try to locate the sources, I sure it will do a good job especially if it is very directional – and if I was trying to trace source of interference I’d likely consider one (as I said trust it to show there is some RF).
Studies have found no evidence that low level RF energy has impact on peoples' health, so for almost everyone there is no issue or need to worry, but I don’t rule out people being sensitive to EMF as who knows what is buried in our DNA that is only active for a few people and some animals are able to detect electrical signals. |
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