Ford just made a deal to use Tesla's charging network. So within the next few years, I understand all Ford EVs will be chargeable on the most reliable network out there, and the most convenient to use, and having the best locations.
@cwbullet, when the Chevy Equinox EV comes out in your area check it out. I'd appreciate your opinion. It stars out at $30k.
The frunk could be used for the more detailed and fragile scale rockets. And/or food.
This one is still there:
@Funkworks What was the one that got shut down?
That was "Wind" something. The "Aerodynamics" thread can include the same content so no loss.
They start mentioning solutions including batteries around 9 min in. Whew. I was getting stressed at how they weren’t at first.
The only meter I have is a handlheld one I can move from one appliance to another. Got it to measure energy and cost per overnight car charging.
Me, I stay away from posting IRA articles because it risks attracting all-knowing politicians who know much more than half-witted scientists and/or engineers like I sometimes try to be. A thread on the IRA could be interesing but I'm not the one to start an IRA thread. Sticking to non-political techs is what I do because not a single science class I ever had ever mentionned politics, so tech isn't political and that's where I stand.
Doesn't your home have an electric meter? The power utility needs to know how much electricity you're using every month before they can send you a bill, right?
My power company installed one several years ago but I've never gone online to see my usage. I'll have to check is out and see what data it gives me.
We only have a standard meter, read once a month. The utility upgraded the meters to be read centrally instead of an actual meter reader walking around, so it's possible that they're smart meters in disguise.
My understanding is that the smart meters are primarily used where you have different electricity pricing at different times of day. I would guess that that happens when you have the grid is close enough to capacity that the utility wants to shift demand to nighttime hours.
Probably, I just look at the bill
. All the data's in there, and I think I have an app and a website. I think I know a lot about electro-stuff, but I let electricians do their thing. No use for me out there.
And I'll add that our local big electric utility, Puget Sound Energy, some years ago did have varying prices for electricity at different times of the day but I have no idea how they ascertained hour-by-hour, customer-by-customer usage....and after not too terribly long, they went back to just pricing by total amount used. Even so, I still set my Kia Soul EV to charge in the middle of the night (well, charge starts at 12:30 AM if needed) but that's a function in the car.We only have a standard meter, read once a month. The utility upgraded the meters to be read centrally instead of an actual meter reader walking around, so it's possible that they're smart meters in disguise.
The inverters in the individual solar panels in our array report power output per panel in 15-minute increments. With reasonably smart meters, you should be able to have the same functionality at whatever time steps you wanted for the meters on the network. You'd probably want to have some functionality to have meters send in their data at some time step so you don't have a million or five data points transmitted exactly at the top of the hour.
