EV general discussion

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Originally Posted by Eevo

no sun in texas at the moment.

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No oil either, their refineries have ground to a halt.

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Originally Posted by goingbush

No oil either, their refineries have ground to a halt.

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true but oil is easy to store.
electricity not so much

I believe retirees with money will buy self drive shopping trolleys to keep their independance as their reflexes and eyes slow down.

I most certainly will be one of them if the used prices are agreeable to my pocket if/when I am in need.

I currently drive to the shops and back 3 times a week (15 kms in total) and only other time is 460k round trip up north occasionaly to socialise.

Basically one tank a month does me fine so I always top up when fuel is close to the $1 mark and skip the price bumps.

Am sure there are others like me and a once or twice a week topup from a 10 amp slowmo wall socket in garage will be more than adequate.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

no sun in texas at the moment.

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Actually in the Texas grid it is the gas fired generators that have caused their problems. Wind is actually supplying more power to the Texas grid than normal and surprise surprise, solar is only a couple of % less than normal - so it it old style power generation that is not holding up under the deep freeze.

Was covered in a news grab on the news earlier today.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

Actually in the Texas grid it is the gas fired generators that have caused their problems. Wind is actually supplying more power to the Texas grid than normal and surprise surprise, solar is only a couple of % less than normal - so it it old style power generation that is not holding up under the deep freeze.

Was covered in a news grab on the news earlier today.

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all of that is incorrect.

solar is producing close to nothing as panels are under inches of snow
wind is producing about 1GW out of about 30GW
gas is being diverted by law away from gas power plants
as far as ive seen, nuclear is fine.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

jerry cans. i keep about 100l in the shed as spare. cant do that with an EV
and i dont know about texas but here most service stations have a backup generator.

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City servos don’t have back up gens - we supply about 2 a week to servos that lose power. With your 100 litre of fuel I could charge an EV easily with a gen as well. 👍

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Originally Posted by Homestar

With your 100 litre of fuel I could charge an EV easily with a gen as well. 👍

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fair point.

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refueling car, 5min
recharging EV, couple of hours?

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Originally Posted by Eevo

all of that is incorrect.

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So you are the expert [thumbsupbig] - I am not and don't pretend to be - I was just doing a Bob in relaying what is in the media but dont have the link to support what was being reported by the Texas news.

Oh and nuclear crashed too but you are the expert.

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Originally Posted by 101RRS

So you are the expert [thumbsupbig] - I am not and don't pretend to be - I was just doing a Bob in relaying what is in the media but dont have the link to support what was being reported by the Texas news.

Oh and nuclear crashed too but you are the expert.

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you made 2 mistakes, one big, one small. bob and media.

you got any links to nuclear falling over? ive seen it in the media but cant find any first hand references.

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Originally Posted by Eevo

you made 2 mistakes, one big, one small. bob and media.

you got any links to nuclear falling over? ive seen it in the media but cant find any first hand references.

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