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Originally Posted by Sooner or later
Jim, you have been great. There is so much misinformation or misunderstanding out I just want people to know the actual facts. When we read about renewable energy being cheaper than coal production those folks are misleading us. Yes, modern wind energy is cheaper than 40 year old coal facilities. They are not cheaper than modern gas turbine production.
For some folks electrics make sense. For others they don't. Even with heavy tax credits and many years of development (Tesla shipped it's first car 11 years ago) most electrics are still fighting for their lives.
To transform the energy and auto sectors it is going to take many decades and many tens of trillion of dollars. And your local electrical grid will need upgrades when everyone in town is trying to charge their electric at home. The current grid can handle about 25% home charging. It ain't gonna be cheap and we are going to pay for it.
To force the transition into a faster pace we impose high taxes on non green energy. Cali is adding another 6 cents (thereabouts ) to it's gas tax this coming Monday. Their fuel tax will be right at 75 cents a a gallon once you consider the local, state, federal, underground storage, and the sales tax that taxes those previous taxes.
Who's that going to hurt? The poor bastard that can't afford to rent a home near his work and has to commute to his middle class or entry level job. The poor bastard that can't afford a new car much less pay the premium for an electric vehicle or 2 grand for installation of home charger. The poor bastard we claim we care about while we throw him under the electric bus.
I don't drive high end cars. Don't need to. Don't care. I buy used with 20,000 miles and drive em till the wheels fall off. I am the last guy to pay a heavy premium for an electric with a tax credit from an overspending government. My SC set me back 17k 15 years ago.
Don't believe everything you read. Don't believe what I have just written. Do your own research. Educate yourselves and be prepared to open your wallets wide.
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Here, I will make your head explode.
! town south in the down town area, there is a new covered parking area that is covered by solar panels. At one end of it are 8 spaces reserved for EV's with free charging ports. 4 are for Tesla's the other 2 are for the rest of the EV world. It bothers me that Tesla will not play well with others in this regard their charging ports are proprietary and that sucks, there should be a common plug they all use that is future proof.
We use it at least once a week, typically on Sunday, we will not plug in the car Friday night or Saturday then head downtown to the green market and free concerts on the river. Typically we are there 2+ hours, enough to take our EV from 20% to 100% for free while there.
During the week, my wife will run errands downtown and charge up for free too.
Total cost of a full charge? Less than $3 so we can go 90 miles in the i3.
For the record, nothing puts a smile on my face more than the E30 at WOT winding though the gears or racing down some mountain roads.
We typically take it on road trips and love it, it gets 30MPG on the open road and is just a fun car to drive in. I would love to get a 135i or 235i M package to take over those duties. As soon as I sell off the E21 that may happen. I am at a crossroads with the E21, I am contemplating having it sanded down and repainted properly and replacing the dash then putting it up for sale, it is a perfect time capsule outside those 2 items. The sale of that should come close to funding a newer car.
My E30 still makes me more moist than than the i3 which is an appliance, that is admittedly really fun to toss around.
