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Doug Frisk
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Drive an EV Porsche every day and you've heard correctly.
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Doug Frisk
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Drive an EV Porsche every day and you've heard correctly.
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I can get 10' lengths of 3/4" EMT conduit in my Porsche Taycan. Though you do want to throw a rag over the front end so it doesn't scratch the displays.
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SUV is just a marketing term that allows fragile men to buy a station wagon by pretending it's not actually a wagon.
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$3.50 a pound. And just like most metals, 100% recyclable.
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If you're looking at the Lyriq, you might consider the Porsche Macan EV. I've got the Taycan wagon which I've found to be exceedingly practical.
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Doug Frisk
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Well, not nobody, but chargers in more densely populated areas do tend to have an excess of Uber/Lyft drivers camping out.
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One is a car that is fun to take out occasionally, but the other is a car that is a perfect daily driver that can perform at a much higher level than the Omni any time I want it to. It's literally the best of both world.
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I understand where you are coming from, parked next to the Taycan is my '86 Shelby Dodge Omni GLHS, complete with ferocious turbo lag. With great effort it can do some remarkable things, but the Taycan can do those same things almost effortlessly.
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Someone is going to have to dig up Hal Needham.
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If you mean it doesn't produce obnoxious noises and smells, you're right it doesn't provide "driver engagement."
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Which I get in my Taycan. It's just distilled to its essence. I can hear the tires and gearbox whine. I can concentrate on throttle and steering inputs and the feedback. I can do it all while not sounding like a wheezy chainsaw to the neighbors.
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If you don't think EVs can be engaging to drivers you haven't been behind the wheel of a Porsche Taycan.
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No, it doesn't. It has a tiny 35kWh battery. 70% of 35 is 24.5kWh so if it's doing that, it's charging just under 300kW. Several existing EVs can already charge at a faster rate.
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If you don't count leaving the oceans.
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The people in Canberra who can charge at home don't need public chargers, the people traveling to or from Canberra generally don't need them in Canberra, they need them on the roads outside of Canberra. The travelers in Canberra need chargers at their hotel.
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Roughly 2/3rds of US families own their home. Of that 2/3rds 1/3 live in condos or other de minimis PUD type situations leaving about 50% that own single family homes. Remove the ones parking on street and fewer than 50% of households are in a position to easily charge at home.
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Home charging is easy if you own your own home and have off street parking. If you rent, there's immediately a third party involved and if you use on-street parking you're fucked.
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The study isn't wrong it's just being misquoted. 46% of EV owners considering an ICE car isn't 46% regretting an EV purchase, it's just 46% saying they won't rule out purchasing an ICE vehicle. More interesting is the 54% who wouldn't consider going back.
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The battery charges fastest when it's warm, so it's preheated and ready to charge fast when I reach that charging station because of the miles I just put on. The bigger thing is that metro area public chargers are full of uber drivers slow charging to 100% so there's always a wait.
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I live in Duluth MN and travel to the Minneapolis area about 15 times a year, about a 325 mile round trip. The trick is to charge prior to the destination. I stop about 90 miles from Duluth and charge just enough to get down and back to the same charger. That maximizes efficiency in a couple of ways
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There was no sitting on laurels at the Microsoft of the 90s. Tesla was ten years ahead of their competition in 2011. Since then their improvements (battery cells and monolithic casting) have largely been evolutionary and not revolutionary. They've also come with downsides.
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He had a sort of first mover advantage with EVs. He's squandered that and is about to get crushed. With AI and robotics, he's late to the party. Bill Gates famously said "In five years all of our products will be obsolete. The only question is if we obsolete them, or our competitors do."
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Or put another way, the difference between an ICE car and EV is essentially a rounding error once you consider heavy trucks.
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No one seems to get that when you have a quartic the damage from actual heavy trucks is so much greater that it's pointless to talk about cars. A 26K pound Class 6 does 350 times the damage per mile that a 6Klb pound EV does. An 80K Class 8 does 2000 times the damage of that EV per mile.
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It's a bonnet hole. That's a hill I'm willing to die on!
youtu.be/cHHbFLpAoJM?...
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It is not unheard of for meters in multi family dwellings to get misassigned. It's possible the meter assigned to your unit is a neighbor, that would explain the usage when you're not home. It's certainly worth having the utility company verify the meter serial number matches the one on your account
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It sounds like you might have a neighbor on your meter. If you can get the utility to do it while neighbors are around I'd suggest they disconnect your unit at the meter to see who complains.
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An EV charging spike is what you see here at 2:00 AM. The anomaly in both cases is pretty small, what you'd get from taking a hot shower, microwaving/air frying lunch and drying your hair.
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So Generator -> transmission -> battery -> motors is the same as generator -> transmission -> cracking water to H2 -> storage -> transport ->storage -> hydrogen delivery to target vehicle -> fuel cell -> motors. OK then.
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I think it's fair to say that the Supreme Court crossed the Rubicon today.
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I hate those things; they are a complicated mechanical solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist. That problem being protecting the charging cord. In Europe, the charge station is an outlet, and the EV owner keeps a cord in their car, that way the cord itself isn't sitting exposed when unused
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Hello there Mr. I'm not an oil industry shill even though I'm shilling hydrogen which as a storage technology is decades behind batteries and would really only benefit the fossil gas extraction industry. I'd like to point out that green hydrogen isn't an "energy source" it's a storage medium.
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They are good training wheel EVs. It's an EV with a security blanket and binkie so the people who've really bought into the "range anxiety" BS can hold onto the gas engine in a way that they can learn they don't need the EV range they think they do.
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It is a conundrum. My discount time range is 11 PM to 5 AM. The car starts charging at 11 kW every night at 11:00. As more homes move to EV charging there will be a noticeable spike at 11 PM. OCPP offers potential control for the utility, but cars themselves should be able to spread their charging.
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What model year is your current car and how many miles are on it? I'd bet there are EVs that could work for you, I was able to commute 200 miles a day for a week this last April in our EV without problems.
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We started driving the EV last October. Based on mileage and prices today we'd have spent about $1250 on gas instead of $243 on electricity. The charger cost about $1000 to install so it's paid for itself and we're saving about $100 a month in fuel costs.
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For many EVs it does not exist. Because electric motors run backwards just as easily as they run forward there's only a single gear in most EV transmissions. A clutch adds extra expense, complexity, weight, and maintenance that's not worth it for an edge case like towing.
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I don't think that's the case. Unless there is a physical clutch that disconnects the motor(s) from the wheels, towing on the ground will cause the motors to generate electricity. Or at the very least powerful eddy currents. With the car switched off, that power is just bouncing around in the motor.
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If you already have an electric dryer or stove, you don't need a panel upgrade, you just need a switch that will automatically deenergize the EVSE while the stove or dryer are in use. Those can be had for less than $500.
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When people ask me what sized EVSE they need I suggest the most powerful unit they can install without a service panel upgrade. The cost difference between running a 15 amp 120 volt circuit and a 60 amp 240 volt circuit is negligible. Service upgrades start at $2K and go to are you fucking kidding?
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Doug Frisk
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The vast majority of EV charging is done overnight when demand is lowest.
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Driving off to pick up dinner last night and was confronted with this ugliness in my front yard.
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I had zero antibodies to measles so went through the MMR shots as a 50 year old. The only difficult part was that they had no Underdog Band-Aids so I had to settle for a Fairly OddParents one. Complications for an adult with measles can be significantly more than getting the wrong Band-Aid
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Until recently I had no immunity to measles. If you were born between 1960 and 1970 there's a real possibility that you were never vaccinated as a child but because other children in your cohort were you've never caught it and developed immunity. Have your Dr. test for antibodies if you're unsure.
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Which make/model of EV is it? My understanding is that newer EVs that have more active battery management are lasting much longer than early models that had passive battery cooling
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As much as I dislike Musk, Tesla's depth of unsold cars is much lower than most conventional manufacturers who have the unsold inventory distributed across 100s of dealer lots. Dodge has something like 6 months of unsold cars on lots compared to Tesla's 6 or so weeks.
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It is a crash though. Sales are down 13% year over year that despite huge price cuts that have eaten into their profits. Unlike GM and VW who both also had year over year drops Tesla only sells EVs so a 13% drop in 100% of their product is a 13% drop over all compared to a 20% drop in 10% for GM/VW.
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Agreed, nothing is cheaper than hydrogen, but nothing is of no value either. Pumped hydro storage is cheaper than hydrogen and more efficient round trip. LDES is literally my jam, CAES is more efficient than hydrogen, batteries are more efficient. Hydrogen is literally a sideshow.
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Green hydrogen has its niche. But it will remain a niche unless some seriously unlikely advances happen in hydrogen storage and transport.
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