Husband. Parent to two lovely dogs. Okay, maybe one lovely dog and a two year-old puppy with ADD.
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@roygrubb
A much better use of a solar panel is an optimally placed canopy over the parking space providing maximum generation throughout the day and shading for the car to keep it from getting hot.
While driving, trees, utility polls, semis, buildings, bridges and overhead signs will all severely limit solar output from vehicle mounted panels.
@CKsTechNews
Not true. I just filled both my ICE and EV.
Cost to drive 100 miles in my ICE was currently $14. My EV it cost $4.60.
My ICE is significantly more expensive by a factor of 3.
@Hypx
The numbers in that article are very unrealistic.
I just filled my ICE vehicle and it cost $14.33 for 100 miles.
I just filled my EV and it cost $4.67 for 100 miles.
@Rjdlandscapes
Turn off and wait 10 seconds before charging a ZS EV? I'd be nervous about cutting it short and would likely err on the side of waiting too long. Who wants to have to mentally count every time you charge?
There is already a stigma of EVs taking too long to charge. This really isn't going to help that image. Charging should be made as simple as possible, not more complex.
In our Tesla, withs 10 secs we're already plugged in and charging and well on our way to a coffee refill.
The biggest lie the US public ever bought into about public transportation - busses, subways, trains, is that should be a profitable service. They're not a profitable service, they're public infrastructure.
Aside from toll roads (which are a regressive tax on the poor and should be eliminated), we don't expect our roads or sidewalks to earn a profit. They're simply a utility that is granted to the public because you live there.
The roads don't close at 2AM just because not enough people drive on them for them to turn a profit, they're there 24x7x365 for people to be able to get from point A to point B no matter when they need to go there. When I buy a house on a road, I don't have to worry that some future administration will decide to tear up that road in front of my house and leave me with no way to get to work. It's simply part of our social contract that you can get to every location in town via a road and a car.
Why can we not offer the public the same for mass transit? Define an area of the city that is a Guaranteed Free Public Transportation zone. Every home and place of business within that zone is guaranteed to have public transportation service 24x7x365 to every other place within that zone. where you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, and you won't have to transfer more than 2 times.
Sure, maybe you say "After midnight, the busses don't run, but the city will pay for your taxis, because it's more efficient to run a fleet of taxis than to operate busses", but you've maintained that public infrastructure commitment.
@quincy
That's not exactly how things work. Just about every modern car has software crucial to its operation. Most never receive any form of software update yet they continue to operate.
Tesla is a bit unique in that they currently do provide regular software updates which generally improve functionality.
If updates were to stop, Teslas will become like every other car on the road...static in functionality.
@noahshachtman
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