bidens incredible transition to electric cars
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$16,000 (2017) with a 7 year payback at that time. With electric price increases payback happened in ~5 years. Now what the panels produce is free. Looking back I should have installed more panels. Still have a $800 true up cost each Nov. with the EV.
looney2ns
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My rate plan with PG&E is net metering. When I produce more Kwh than I use it becomes a credit (meter runs backwards). When I use more than I produce it works off the credit first. I use more than I produce so at the end of 12 months I owe for the additional usage called an annual true up bill. Mine is in Nov each year since Nov is when the solar was completed. It's actually a little more complicated since I have peak and off peak rate times. I could sign up for the EV rate plan where night time rates are very cheap for California but since the solar produces most of the power during off peak times it is better for me to pay the higher off peak rates since the solar offsets mostly off peak. Confusing?
I only mentioned the EV because the solar was enough to cover all electric cost prior to the EV.
Smilingreen
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mat200
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Probably a good idea to have smoke detector(s) in the garage if you own an EV. Also, any battery charging station. There was a fire that started from one of those Tesla stations in Spring, TX, burnt the garage up and both Tesla's in it. The house was a house of one of my daughter's friends who use to live there,, the new owners had the station installed.
Just saw another headline stating houses burn down after flood from EV vehicles in Florida.
Houses? How many?
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Houses? How many?
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Not EV, but curious, where is the Start/Stop Boaster Battery located in the Fords?
I am not happy with a 48 volt lithium battery sitting behind the 2nd row seats in my new 2025 RAM.
looney2ns
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Dude comes out a full minute later after seeing the fire from the front passenger door and opens the right rear and leaves it open...WTF?
Do those EV F-150's have non-metal door and body panels? That right rear door literally melted and fell off!
Just great......you and neighbors undergo floods and crap and now your EV burns down the house that may have only had minor flood damage.
looney2ns
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Smilingreen
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A dead short or a bad connection at a plug and receptacle connection that has been sitting and arcing for a while. Could also be rodents that have chewed on the vegetable based plastic polymers that are now being used for wire insulation in automotive wiring harnesses.
I had to LOL over how long it took them to open the hood... We keep a battery-powered DeWalt cutoff saw on our engine. Make four straight cuts (diagonally across the corner at the "A" columns to remove hood from hinges, and a V-shape around the latch) and the hood will be off in a couple minutes, tops.
Work smarter, not harder!
Work smarter, not harder!
Yeah our daughter had that happen in their garage. Those rodents got them two times, both cars. I remember going in their garage, they had a dozen traps, all over their garage, even up on the wheels, lol. What a battle.
