"Nothing is going to change that fact..."
You mean, other than wise and judicious use of the resources we have. The population isn't "too big for the water supply" - if the water isn't wasted.
However, I do agree that there are too many people in the world. I recommend that 50% of the world's...
Again. Fresh water is a limited resource in many parts of the world. Additional rain falling over the ocean, because fresh water was turned to steam inland, doesn't help combat water shortages. Especially when aquifers (which were filled over millennia) are being drained of water.
If rain was...
Or when you farm in the desert - farming uses more water per acre than cities. But wasting water by turning it into steam makes even less sense than either of those - especially when there are alternatives that make electricity without turning water into steam.
Just how not "great for the battery" is sitting at high SOC for seven hours or so?
Edit: Or four or five - whatever amount of time it happens to be. Reports I have seen about real world EVs don't seem to back up all the fear mongering about high SOC. I guess I'll find out, myself, in a few...
Spoken like someone who lives where there is an unlimited amount of precipitation or surface water. I live in Arizona. There is a limited amount of water - evaporating it is wasting it - it won't result in additional rainfall here. Sure, it still exists *somewhere*, but not here.
That's like the...
" Much of electricity production requires wasting water to turn turbines. Solar panels and wind turbines do not, so shifting electricity production to those will leave more water for other uses."
Into the air. Most utility scale plants (coal, natural gas, nuclear, concentrated solar) have...
Much of electricity production requires wasting water to turn turbines. Solar panels and wind turbines do not, so shifting electricity production to those will leave more water for other uses.
Your Rivian will wake up to charge the 12V battery, when the level drops too low. The sleep/wake-up cycle increases vampire drains. The level to which the 12 battery is allowed to drop, and the number of charge cycles, decreases the life span of the 12V battery. Other users have reported longer...
The exact C&D DCS battery is not available in the US. I already tried that. I ordered two, and then they got back to me, saying that they were listed as available by mistake, and that there just hadn't been the demand in the US to have those batteries available here.
I think I can answer that - a poorly designed 12V system which causes early battery failure, compounded by a difficult (or impossible) to source replacement battery, compounded by an "all service must be done by our techs" mentality (right down to the error code must be reset by our techs)...
Yep. Have to grab it within the first couple of seconds, while the latch is open. It is my understanding that this is normal - it certainly has been for mine (both sides) for the 2.5 years I've owned it.
Why would you think that Rivian would do this kind of retrofit for $500? They quoted me $900 to replace two small AGM batteries, which would take maybe 1/2 an hour. My guess is that it would cost closer to $10k to do that retrofit, if Rivian decided to offer it. There likely wouldn't be many...