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That's no longer the case. You can buy Chinese rack batteries for prices approaching $100/kWh.
Are they UL certified? If so do you have a brand you can point me at by any chance?
Not generally, although some are. The UL certification will put you at the top end of the $100 - $200 / kWh range I mentioned. Eco-worthy and UZ are two brands with such certification.
Will Prowse reviews a bunch of these.
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Are they UL certified? If so do you have a brand you can point me at by any chance?
> UL certified? Not generally, although some are. The UL certification will put you at the top end of the $100 - $200 / kWh range I mentioned. Eco-worthy and UZ are two brands with such certification. Will Prowse reviews a bunch of these.
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It’s also a clue as to why there’s such serious political opposition to wind and solar and to some extent nuclear for electric generation. Point of use generation is disruptive to many industries… not just petroleum but automotive, trucking, various services that serve both, etc. There’s a significant portion of the population employed by schlepping oil around and doing things with it to support those activities.
It’s called civilization and with 8 billion people on the planet oil and gas isn’t going away fertilizer and drugs aren’t gonna go out of style.
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If you run out of gas you’re also stuck. Only upside is that the recovery service can bring you a few gallons of fuel instead of a tow.
I somewhat suspect that's a temporary state of affairs. Nothing prevents a couple tons of batteries being put on a truck with a CCS charger to achieve the same thing. It won't be efficient but neither is driving a few liters of fuel to someone from a gas station.
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The pacific northwest’s vast hydro capacity makes it maximally attractive to own an EV. The rest of the country isn’t nearly so lucky.
Is the hydro power already mostly consumed? What actually matters is where extra generation occurs to handle the marginal new load of new electric vehicles. Everyone fools themselves because they look at the current percentage of hydropower and think that is what powers their car - when it rarely is.
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I think 1600 watts of solar panels produces enough energy to drive an EV 12000 miles a year. Your car though would have to be always plugged in during the day. But probably 3200 watts would be enough for a car used for commuting to be charged mornings, evenings, and weekends.
Not to be picky, but 1600w is a really small solar system. These days a panel is around 500w. Where I stay 8 panels is a "small" system. I have 20. In summer that generates 85% of my household needs. (It would be 100% but I deliberately only got a very small 5kw battery.) In winter it's less (mostly because of heating requirements). But I have space for some more panels, so I'm running the numbers. (I'm currently get…
If the world can afford to manufacture 100 million light vehicles a year it can afford to manufacture the solar panels to power them.