• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    I like the idea of EVs because I (and a lot of other people here in California) have a solar system that produces more electricity than what I need day-to-day, so charging the car is effectively free. I don’t have an EV yet but will probably buy one next year.

    I really like like the Ioniq 5 and 6, but it’s kinda ugly at the front and back. I just want an EV that looks like a car, not some futuristic-looking thing.

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        1 year ago

        I do but the rate is very low.

        The cost of electricity in summer is around $0.45/kWh in peak times and $0.37/kWh in off-peak times. I get 1:1 credits for excess generation, so any overproduction during the day can offset usage at night or on cloudy days.

        However, if I have credits left at the yearly true-up, they’re only cashed out at around $0.04/kWh. There’s more value in using the credits rather than cashing them out.

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      1 year ago

      FCEVs basically mean the same thing, and it will be viable for everyone and not just the rich.

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        1 year ago

        Batteries are only getting cheaper and I have never seen a hydrogen station or even vehicle in my entire life.

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          You probably didn’t see a BEV until the last several years. FCEVs will plunge in cost until they are no more expensive than ICE cars. That will be the real revolution.

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            1 year ago

            Battery vehicles were made the hot item over a decade ago by Tesla… The real evolution would be to get rid of car dependency altogether

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              Not sure if that would be an evolution. That would be like a sea sponge saying “the real evolution would be getting rid of multicellular structures”.

              Car dependency is a new thing, and it’s also called “using cars because we vastly prefer that to not using cars”.