Expect ad hominems when presenting hard facts and math that go against the heterodoxy. Actually Funkworks is very fair and doesn't play like this. I applaud him even when I tweek his posts a bit.
Don't know about benchmark, but they are an example of 100% sustainable energy production. So yes, it can be done.
Geothermal is nice. We should all live on a Volcano. I have been doing some initial research on the Hawaii project. I will start another thread where I would like your input to see if what I am finding is accurate. Ok?
I suspect Lucid would not exist were it not for the Saudis, who are investors, future clients, and hosts of a Lucid manufacturing plant. Lucid CEO Rawlinson worked for Tesla 10 years ago, but since Tesla's stated mission is all about sustainability, I suspect there might have been disagreements over the role of the Saudis, and Rawlinson saw an opportunity to start Lucid with them. All speculation, but my point is that these cars are literally made for royalty.
Lots going on in solid state but nothing on the market yet that I know of.
I don't think it will be available in America, but it might affect Tesla's sales in China.
This isn't exactly the answer you're looking for, but we charge our Leaf off of a 110VAC outlet. I think there's been once in 7 years that it wasn't fully charged overnight (except the times we forgot to plug it in
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None for me. The 110V charger included with the car is enough to charge overnight what I drive in a day (my small PHEV battery only does about 28 miles anyway). However I did get a quote from an electrician and they wanted about $700 for the charger itself, and about $1000 to setup the 240V distribution.
This isn't exactly the answer you're looking for, but we charge our Leaf off of a 110VAC outlet. I think there's been once in 7 years that it wasn't fully charged overnight (except the times we forgot to plug it in
So rather than waiting for the battery charge to get way down you both trickle charge nightly?
We trickle charge nightly to 100%. Charging to 100 isn’t supposed to be as good for the battery, but we also haven’t seen degradation in range either. Maybe the trickle charge helps there.
In my case, when the battery is down to about 10-12 miles, which only happens on weekends, I switch to EV mode.
My power company, Puget Sound Energy (the same one that @boatgeek has) had a rebate which pretty much paid for the level 2 EVSE itself (ours is from Clipper Creek). I had several things done by the electrician at the same time he ran the 240V circuit for the EVSE, so it might not be representative. I think I paid about $1000 for the electrical work. That’s kind of on the high side for such a thing.
I’m not exactly sure, because the NEMA 14-50 outlets were installed in the garage when our house was built. Probably a few hundred dollars max.
I charge to 80% at home and at work daily.
Since the price is about the same with or without the rebate i wonder how GM feels about transferring the margin they gave up to the dealer instead?
That's been a problem lately. Individual dealers mark up their prices because used cars have been selling for near the cost of new ones. Ford HQ has been creative in trying to control this, but I haven't seen anything from GM HQ. The worst I've seen is a Mercedes EQS marked up 50k.
The problem is supply not meeting demand. The Fed is working to fix that. The solution for Ford and GM is not interfere with their dealers market, its to increase supply. Which GM and Ford don't want to do because they are probably losing money on every EV they are selling now.
By "Ford HQ has been creative in trying to control this, ..." I was referring to things like:
That article says nothing about limits to 'agreed price" or if that has to be disclosed to Ford.
Fascinating, maybe you understood something else from the article.
I would expect (and I don't really know anything about this project in particular) that the battery is charged off of the main gas turbine rather than a plug-in. Anything they can do to have the turbine shut down more of the time is good news for fuel consumption since turbines are such gas hogs with relatively little change in fuel consumption between full power and no power. Reducing fuel consumption reduces the big fat tail of logistics support, and would definitely help in theater. Some short time silent running (or silent stationkeeping) would be a nice bonus.
I will declare bullshit on "near silent" AbramsX anything weighing 65 tons and moving is audible and easy to hear long before it gets to you and feel through the gound, unless its moving about the speed of your average garden slug.
