Or encourage more people to go residential solar, that would add a lot of capacity to the grid.
When do you think you will buy a 100% pure electric vehicle?
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Or encourage more people to go residential solar, that would add a lot of capacity to the grid.
I think going with a whole bunch of distributed microgrids would go a long way towards solving our grid capacity issues. Adding a couple solar panels or small roof mounted wind turbine to a whole bunch of buildings would be a really good thing in my mind.
Part 2: I found Des Moines regulations on this, any service update (what we are speaking of here) would require the house to be brought into current code.
Des Moines Electrical Service Update
The $10K estimate with the above in consideration is optimistic at best.
Of course local codes vary, and while Des Moines is stricter than many surrounding areas, I would expect most similar sized cities to have similar codes.
So all the straps/bolts/connectors are covered with silicon or something? About the only way I could see the set up being completely sealed so corrosion doesn’t affect the set up.
Has to be a complete bearcat to swap out then.
They're a totally sealed system. If you see the underside of an EV it's very different.
Hell my Rivian can forge 43"+of water.
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What a bizzaro world I'm experiencing right now. Me, the crazy fiscal conservative trying to defend EV's......All I have to say about this chart is look at the source.
Okay, is the 7500 tax credit per vehicle still available or not. Per car and driver, the inflation reduction act, put tight requirements on it that now, very few qualify for it
Credits for new clean vehicles purchased in 2023 or after | Internal Revenue Service
You may qualify for a clean vehicle tax credit up to $7,500 if you buy a new, qualified plug-in electric vehicle or fuel cell electric vehicle.
Yeah, that's basically the same as what Car and driver had. What is your point?Credits for new clean vehicles purchased in 2023 or after | Internal Revenue Service
You may qualify for a clean vehicle tax credit up to $7,500 if you buy a new, qualified plug-in electric vehicle or fuel cell electric vehicle.www.irs.gov
I am also not a moderator but I beg everyone to do their best to keep this out of the cave.
Leasing is the general workaround as the companies still get the full credit, assuming they pass it along from the leasing company. Then buy out the lease.
Honda, Toyota express skepticism about EVs amid industry downturn
Honda and GM announced on Wednesday they were scrapping their highly anticipated joint effort to produce affordable EVs
nextshark.com
"Ambitious project falls through: Honda and GM's highly anticipated joint effort to produce budget-friendly EVs was canceled on Wednesday, a year after it was announced, according to Reuters. The ambitious project aimed to leverage GM's Ultium battery technology for the creation of affordable EVs and was set for release in 2027."
This and some of your other posts does get me to thinking about how the demand for more electronics with big amp draws like (chargers, stoves, driers, cooktops) will effect old houses like the 1912 house I grew up in. They are barely limping along as it is with their service and old 2-wire setups. If I was still living in the house I grew up in I'd have to rewire the whole thing to really bring it up to speed. That plus tearing the interior up to make it 6" walls for insulation would probably have to be a DIY labor of love as it would cost more than the house would be worth when you were done (small town Iowa).
Okay, let's make this official. Keep the discussion here clean of political ideology, period. A number of posts have been deleted. Further drifts off into the politics will get timeouts. The thread asked folks about what their plans are for a future EV, not what is your political hot take.
This is an interesting and informative thread, everything from house wiring implications to discussions on availability of models and charging options/challenges. Let's keep it clean.
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I was struck by the following from Ford. Their CEO "warned of continued pressure on electric vehicles as customers balk at paying a premium for EVs over other models."
If their business plan was mainstream customers would pay a premium for EV's- that sounds pretty naive about how most consumers shop. Maybe that attitude would hold true if the car companies where planning on EV's being a niche market for vehicles. But US auto companies have basically written off autos for the last decade and focused on creating market demand for pickups and SUV's.