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https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-proposals-to-reduce-fossil-fuel-subsidies-january-2024

Just show her the math.

Wow. My 2-bed townhome averages about 300kWh a month not including charging the EV. Our water heater is gas though and only two adults. I saw an interesting statistic that most people use much more energy for heating water than they need for driving an EV

Correct. Other makes have not yet been enabled on the Tesla chargers that do not have a magic dock aside from GM just a couple weeks ago. Tesla is way behind on enabling Polestar, etc. Maybe if the guy at the top didn't fire a chunk of the supercharger team. But then again, when was the last...

To be fair, Rivian is building out the RAN network. I expect the site builds to accelerate now that the Open RAN 1.5 hardware is getting deployed. I've already seen pictures of 3 different Open RAN sites with hardware on the ground.

They are taller with a longer cable to reach the car port locations on different cars. So this RAN will be open to everyone.

Those are the new taller dispensers for the open RAN network

You should look into the social cost of using oil. It may shock you. From the environmental effects to which countries have the most oil. I'll give you a hint, those countries with the biggest stock piles of oil are not run by people who treat their citizens very well. The textile industry is...

Say he was granted 800,000 shares annual in RSU which is worth roughly $10 million (much less than GM and Ford CEOs pulling in. I recall Mary B is around $30 million annual total compensation). A quarter of that would be 200,000 shares. 83,333 is just over 40%, so that would cover his taxes on...

Looks like a basic sell to cover taxes for quarterly RSU grant to me. Rivian is distributing RSUs on a quarterly schedule. They will sell a portion of those RSUs to cover the taxes. At RJs bracket, that's at least 35% of his awarded RSUs being sold.

Just had another thought. If the battery pack is running too hot during charging, you could spray water on the heat exchangers in the front of the truck to potentially help speed up charging.

What would be an interesting twist was if the rules required equal energy usage... energy content of gas used in kWh vs battery consumption. Or some time of scaling factor. Finish time multiplied by energy consumption.

Might need some help from Rivian on making sure you can get a charger at Barstow. Barstow tends to get busy on the weekends with Vegas traffic.

L1 and L2 use AC charging. Different modules than high power L3 which uses DC.

As a generalization, 60-65C is typically when things get derated in power for li-ion batteries. 70C is a hard stop. 105F/40C is completely normal and safe.

Typically, a derate is because the pins are getting too hot. Either in the charging connector or the vehicle inlet port. This is for safety as the alternative would be something potentially catching on fire.

Yup, the system was heating up the motors in order to heat up the battery to enable the battery to accept more power.

I don't think that's particularly a bad thing.... The quality coming out of the plant is still not good enough based on all the issues reported by people picking up new vehicles and rightfully asking the service centers to fix things before taking delivery.

This makes sense. Really, they limit the current. So double the voltage, can get double the power at the same current derate. With a failed cable cooling system, they can only push so much current through the cable without melting it completely.

Typically, anything under 50kW is a derate due to cable cooling system failure. Makes sense other vehicles would see the same issues.