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Did anyone calculate the amount of energy (KW) that the state uses in the form of gas and diesel that will have to come from the electric grid? We know that California has a great over abundance of electricity right know and an overbuilt distribution system that can handle several times the requirement of today.
Solar is great at night when charging is needed, winds usually drop at night. We charge during the day and drive at night. That will work. I am waiting to see how this is sold. I think they are planning to make electricity using mushrooms and distribute it with fairy dust. Because any plans to build the necessary generating plants and distribution systems needed to be started at least five years ago. We know how helpful the regulatory agencies are for permits to build projects of that magnitude. |
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Good video, and good real world experience. His driving style on the road pretty much matches mine when solo. I only stop to fuel, which in the FRS is about half his frequency.
So, in the 86, in 1000 highway miles, assuming I start full, I'd have to refuel twice, for about 20 minutes. If you throw in a couple of quick rest stop breaks we would probably be up to an hour. Some "rest stop" breaks might be early fueling breaks so overall it probably works out to an hour either way. So, in the end, it took him about 2 hours longer than it would have taken me (if you extend his trip to the full 1,000 miles). Not awful, but not insignificant either. BTW, I realy enjoy his videos, but (and this applies to all similar videos) I don't get why this had to be filmed in a car. There was nothing the car added to the video and frankly I found it distracting.
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I prefer filming in the car, it adds entertainment and likely aids to the success of many of his videos. You can only stare at a white board with magic numbers for so long.
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True, but he could have shown video clips from the 1,000 mile trip the entire time to at least made it directly relevant rather than a random drive through the same backwoods at his home he uses in other videos.
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So, an EV for daily use and an ICE for weekend/long haul trips works great for me now.
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I am in the motions of trying to get a beater second car. After losing my 86 in busy daily driving, I don't feel like taking that risk again. An EV would be a great DD beater, just need those prices to come on down. Ideal future garage: EV DD ICE weekend/leisure Mega beater winter salt eater, ICE or EV idc.
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Not exactly beater territory, but with Chevy trying to dump the last of their 2021 Bolts, I've seen them in the low to mid 20's and as low as 16 or 17K used on Carvana.
Your future garage looks like it will match mine except we'll keep one additional car for MomHawk, and don't need the winter beater. So: DD EV ICE traveling car/truck EV or ICE MomHawk car (she will only drive a "real" Mustang though so she may just keep her '05)
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If the new $12,500 EV Tax Credit gets passed, it will definitely increase my interest, as long as the OEMs don't increase their price to account for it.
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but an ev isn't a truck. so then i end up keeping the truck around for scrap hauling, and projects. but then the ev, and the truck are boring, so the 86 needs to hang around to remind me that cars can be fun. and then i come to the conclusion that i shouldn't have 3 cars for one person. there's absolutely no reason for that. and so i end up sticking with what i have. a truck for the day-to-day and projects stuff, and the 86 for funzies. btw, early nissan leaf's(leaves?) have dropped into the $5k range. i originally said when they got that low i'd get one, but after having an opportunity to drive one around at an auto auction for a day. just it'd be too much of a forced effort to drive something that i can find more things wrong than right with on a number of levels.
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