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The dirty is annoying, but more importantly indicative of a larger problem of the SCs being overworked. If they don't have the staff to clean the vehicles, where else are they cutting corners? The cross threaded bolt... just left proud like that? Yeah, no, not acceptable. What did the SC say /...

After having flown private jets "over there" , I can confirm that no, the ~20,000 HRH's do not need any more money from us. But neither do Chevron, Exxon, BP, Shell, Texaco, etc. Making our own low carbon sources of electricity is the way to go for the environment and for our financial health...

It's the principle of the thing, man... My last encounter with the EV uneducated public went slightly better, but with the same "nah I'll just wait for hydrogen" hard left turn. At least they listened to me when I gave them a quick 3 reasons why hydrogen is not and will not be a thing at the...

Combine two Why, combine two of things he does quite often, of course

My top 3 recommendations would be 1. OpenEVSE 2. OpenEVSE and...... 3. OpenEVSE

I have 4 of a similar size / spec from a different brand that I'm evaluating for my solar trailer rebuild. Best I've seen is about 1.8kWh/ day under nearly perfect conditions. Might be enough to offset gear guard being on all day, or maybe "pay" the energy cost of one cabin preconditioning...

Was it rolling downhill unpowered?

All taxes are extortion. But taxes that actually pay for roads annoy me the least. We all have to re-register the vehicle every year. Report actual mileage each year under penalty of perjury. Really paranoid states can require a photo of the old registration slip and odometer in the same shot...

Your rhetoric is so far beyond a civil debate and deep into personal attacks, that you're now sabotaging your own attempt to persuade anyone of anything. This will be my last reply in your direction, regardless of what you say next. So now you're calling me a nobody. Thanks. :) I chose to...

... until we end Confined Animal Feeding Operations. There, fixed it for you. Healthy grass pasture is a carbon sink, and if managed well can be a massive one at that. It's incredibly hard to keep grasslands in that carbon sinking state without proper cycling of ruminants. There is research...

I have 2 OpenEVSEs. I won't buy anything else (until a DC direct from solar and bidirectional charger comes out).

I will let Lazard speak for itself.

ICE gets more expensive because they have to pay for credits. EVs get cheaper and/or increase production faster due to the pay in. System does what it's designed to do. Your claim that Rivians now pollute as much as ICE is a specious conclusion. Agreed it's all accounting tricks and parlor games...

Bullish entrails is a heck of mental image. *sarcasm* Thanks for that one /s

Moral of the story, don't buy grid tied only systems. There are too many that are certified to do auto islanding now. Sol-Ark and Storz based on Deye inverters have done this for years. It only takes 4 car batteries to keep the system live when it goes cloudy. Obviously that's not much storage...

Good writeup. I have great memories at Whitman Field. Got to work the airshow as a Civil Air Patrol cadet summer of '97 I think it was. I soloed at that airport at CAP National Flight Academy event the following summer. Agreed EA is a mess. They're really turning into a toxic asset situation...

A decent quick and dirty rule I developed to explain electric fueling costs was just to take the kWh price and move the decimal point over one spot so if you have $0.13/kWh home electric rate, that's equivalent to $1.30 /gallon gasoline. $0.39/kWh is a common price at DCFCs here, some a little...

Thanks for sharing the code. Agreed that's a pretty good deal compared to the competition. Still trying to rationalize a serious trail ebike as a source of exercise and a way to get out on my land more. But the UBCO not having pedals makes that a little harder to justify for that purpose....

Yeah sarcasm didn't make it into or out of text so well. It read as a straight comment to me. No worries though. I can't condone ignorant tribalism whether it's for or against Tesla, Rivian, the fossil fuel industry, political parties, nation states, etc. I will say the pro-EV crowd can...

Read the post above yours. And no I didn't get kicked off the forum.