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Looks like Joey wet his panties again.
A City Is Replacing Its Entire Fleet of Police Cars With Teslas. MAGAs wet panties.
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Joe Capitalist
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White House to Invest $51 Million to Strengthen Nationwide EV Charging Network
The move is part of the administration's effort to build a network of 500,000 public EV charging stations.
Electric vehicles are on the rise in the US, with more than 3 million EVs on the road today. To support EV adoption, the Biden administration has pledged to create a network of half a million public charging ports across the country. On Friday, the administration announced $51 million in funding, with the goal of ensuring the network is resilient and reliable.
The Ride and Drive Electric program will fund efforts aimed at accelerating the transportation sector's shift to EVs, including projects to improve and deploy EV charging stations, according to a Department of Energy news release. The administration also launched a new group, the National Charging Experience Consortium, tasked with making public EV charging easy to use for everyone.
"The EV revolution is well underway, and this funding will help to ensure that every American can access the benefits and count on a reliable EV charging network across the country," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the release.
The initiative to accelerate nationwide electrification is part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, which is geared toward making EV charging networks accessible to everyone in the US.
More than 53,000 public charging stations exist in the United States, with California at over 14,000.
The current number of public charging stations is a far cry from the 500,000-station network the administration hopes to build out.
In August, Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which made way for significant clean energy infrastructure developments like the EV tax credit. That credit reduces the price Americans have to pay for EVs made in the US, up to $7,500.
From wider price ranges to more car brands releasing EV models of their own, there hasn't been a better time to buy an EV. Less expensive varieties, like the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, start at around $29,000
The move is part of the administration's effort to build a network of 500,000 public EV charging stations.
Electric vehicles are on the rise in the US, with more than 3 million EVs on the road today. To support EV adoption, the Biden administration has pledged to create a network of half a million public charging ports across the country. On Friday, the administration announced $51 million in funding, with the goal of ensuring the network is resilient and reliable.
The Ride and Drive Electric program will fund efforts aimed at accelerating the transportation sector's shift to EVs, including projects to improve and deploy EV charging stations, according to a Department of Energy news release. The administration also launched a new group, the National Charging Experience Consortium, tasked with making public EV charging easy to use for everyone.
"The EV revolution is well underway, and this funding will help to ensure that every American can access the benefits and count on a reliable EV charging network across the country," Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said in the release.
The initiative to accelerate nationwide electrification is part of President Joe Biden's Investing in America agenda, which is geared toward making EV charging networks accessible to everyone in the US.
More than 53,000 public charging stations exist in the United States, with California at over 14,000.
The current number of public charging stations is a far cry from the 500,000-station network the administration hopes to build out.
In August, Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which made way for significant clean energy infrastructure developments like the EV tax credit. That credit reduces the price Americans have to pay for EVs made in the US, up to $7,500.
From wider price ranges to more car brands releasing EV models of their own, there hasn't been a better time to buy an EV. Less expensive varieties, like the 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, start at around $29,000
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
TESLA’S CO-FOUNDER HAS SOME GAME-CHANGING NEWS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF EV BATTERIES
Redwood Materials announced that it can recover 95% of the important metals from batteries.
by Jeremiah Budin*/*May 26, 2023
Great news for anyone hoping to buy an electric car in the future and for anyone who cares about our planet: A company that recycles lithium-ion batteries recently announced that after a yearlong pilot program, it was able to recover important metals from used batteries at an incredible rate of more than 95%.
The company, Redwood Materials, was founded by JB Straubel, one of the five Tesla co-founders and the company’s former CTO.
Tesla has been slowly moving the world away from transport powered by dirty energy sources and toward electric vehicles. EVs are much less destructive to our planet than gas-powered cars, which release around 5 tons of planet-warming gases per year.
However, one issue with EVs is that their batteries rely on lithium, a chemical that has to be extracted from the Earth via mining. This mining process uses excessive amounts of water and is highly destructive to the surrounding environment.*
Though its effects are not as bad as the effects of mining for dirty energy sources like oil and coal, they must be meaningfully addressed in order for EVs to truly be considered environmentally friendly.
That’s why Straubel moved on from the car company to start Redwood Materials.
The problem facing lithium recycling in the past was not that it couldn’t be done. It’s that the infrastructure was not yet in place for it to be economically viable for profit-driven companies. Previously, there have not been enough used lithium-ion batteries recycled on an industrial scale. But as EVs become more and more popular, that is changing quickly.*
And if the preliminary results are any indication, Straubel’s Redwood Materials is more than ready to occupy that space.
For the past year, Redwood Materials has been collecting old EV battery packs from automakers such as Volvo, Ford, and Audi. In total, it collected 1,268 battery packs and recovered the lithium, cobalt, nickel, and copper contained within at a whopping rate of above 95% efficiency.
As Electrek points out, this is even better when you consider that the recycling efficiency rate of gasoline is 0%.
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Tesla Model 3 owner Ed Fressler recently surpassed the 100,000-mile mark and documented some of his findings in a YouTube video. Fessler purchased his Model 3 in 2018; a Long Range dual-motor all-wheel-drive variant with the Full Self-Driving (FSD) software.
He has been driving his red Tesla Model 3 for 4.5 years. Via the YouTube video, he talks about every important aspect of the car from a real-world usage perspective. He covers battery health and driving range, charging, software updates, maintenance, performance, and more.
When his car was new, Fessler said a full charge indicated a range of 309 miles, nearly identical to the 2018 version’s 310-mile EPA-estimated range. Even though it’s a well-established fact that batteries degrade over time, the drop in range after driving 100,000 miles wasn’t drastic. His Model 3’s screen now displays 290 miles range on a full charge, meaning the battery still holds 94 percent of the original capacity.
Joey wets panties
I wonder how the gasoline gets from the underground tank up to the tank of the van? What is the power source of the pump? Oh yeah, it is electricity. One day soon, Tesla will be using electric delivery vans, but gasoline powered vans will still be using electricity to pump their gasoline....
And electricity for the spark plugs... And electricity for the headlights... And electricity for the radio... And electricity for the cell phone... We could go on and on.
The fact remains, we only need a few tweaks to be able to survive fine without gasoline, but it would be a mess to try to replace all the electricity in our lives.
Whatever it is you mean by that rant
Anyway, the more Tesla vans that are charging on the electrical grid, the harder it is on the grid, and more electricity needs produced. Fire up those natural gas and nuclear powered power plants
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Fire up those natural gas and nuclear powered power plants
Or whatever other power source that is least expensive, most available, and/or least polluting. And that is the point really.
Electricity can come from any source, while gasoline engines mean you need one thing: gasoline. If gasoline is expensive, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is not available, you still need gasoline. If gasoline is polluting, you still need gasoline.
Heck, you can power an EV with gasoline. You cannot power an ICE with nuclear power.
And when you fry the power grid and the transformers on your light pole.....you're screwed.
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Electric vehicle (EV) sales have tripled over the past three years, from nearly three million new electric cars sold worldwide in 2020 to 10 million last year.
Every three in 20 cars sold worldwide in 2022 were electric, with more than half of them sold in China alone.
To put that figure into perspective, for every 20 new cars sold around the world in 2022, three were electric.
Government policies and stricter emissions standards have helped accelerate the adoption of electric cars. By the end of 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that some 14 million electric cars will be sold this year – a 35 percent increase from 2022.
Every three in 20 cars sold worldwide in 2022 were electric, with more than half of them sold in China alone.
To put that figure into perspective, for every 20 new cars sold around the world in 2022, three were electric.
Government policies and stricter emissions standards have helped accelerate the adoption of electric cars. By the end of 2023, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects that some 14 million electric cars will be sold this year – a 35 percent increase from 2022.
Geeko Sportivo
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One of these Electric Prime Delivery trucks pulled up beside me at a red light the other day, and I couldn't believe that the thing was so totally silent.
Another one came down my street the other day, and I didn't even hear it all. It was surreal to me.
We have a huge Prime terminal and warehouse here, and there are hundreds of these things running around through town.
Another one came down my street the other day, and I didn't even hear it all. It was surreal to me.
We have a huge Prime terminal and warehouse here, and there are hundreds of these things running around through town.
Wally, vodka for breakfast is not a good idea.
Only retard would think ICE pollution is not a terrible threat that we should fight. Auto exhaust merely poisons the planet and harms health and environment.
Nordy, how long would YOU live without petroleum?
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
EV Market Share Is Growing Because the Vehicles Keep Getting Better
New research finds no change in the share of people buying an electric vehicle for the sake of buying one, but plenty of other reasons for the appeal.
Electric-vehicle market share has soared in the last decade, but there has been no measurable change in the share of consumers who want to buy an EV just because it’s an EV.
This finding, from a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that the growth in demand for EVs is largely due to the appeal of the models’ technology and features, not a deeper attachment to the idea of owning an EV than in the past.
The results were surprising to Kenneth Gillingham, a Yale University economist and co-author of the study. “I went into it actually expecting to see some pretty notable changes in consumer preferences,” he said.
He embarked on the research project thinking that the number of people who are predisposed to wanting an EV would have risen in the last decade.
While some car buyers may indeed want an EV on principle—like many of the early adopters who helped the vehicles get their first couple of percentage points of market share—researchers report that the size of this group does not appear to have changed. Meanwhile, EVs made up 7.2 percent of the market for new cars and light trucks in the first quarter of this year, more than double the share from two years ago, according to the research arm of Cox Automotive.
Or, as another co-author of the study, the Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor Jeremy Michalek, puts it: “Consumers haven’t changed. It’s technology that’s driving EV adoption.”
What does this say about the EV market?
It means that as EVs improve their features, the rapid rise in sales should continue. The features helping to drive sales include long battery ranges, fast acceleration and low costs for maintenance. But these specifics don’t quite capture the appeal of the whole package, which is that many consumers find EVs to be fun to drive in terms of ride quality in a way that gasoline vehicles are not.
Also, it’s important to note that this most recent survey of prospective buyers was conducted in 2020 and 2021, before the introduction of some intriguing technologies, like the ability of an electric vehicle to provide battery backup to a house, were available.
The biggest factor hindering EV demand is that the models are more expensive than equivalent gasoline models, the paper finds. But the cost gap is shrinking, which should help with growth in market share.
“This is positive news because it’s showing that even when we’re talking about mainstream consumers, they’re still valuing the attributes” of all-electric vehicles, said Kate Whitefoot, another co-author and engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon. “And as we continue to see increases” in a range of [EVs] and “dropping prices relative to gasoline vehicles, more and more mainstream consumers will choose electric vehicles.”
New research finds no change in the share of people buying an electric vehicle for the sake of buying one, but plenty of other reasons for the appeal.
Electric-vehicle market share has soared in the last decade, but there has been no measurable change in the share of consumers who want to buy an EV just because it’s an EV.
This finding, from a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that the growth in demand for EVs is largely due to the appeal of the models’ technology and features, not a deeper attachment to the idea of owning an EV than in the past.
The results were surprising to Kenneth Gillingham, a Yale University economist and co-author of the study. “I went into it actually expecting to see some pretty notable changes in consumer preferences,” he said.
He embarked on the research project thinking that the number of people who are predisposed to wanting an EV would have risen in the last decade.
While some car buyers may indeed want an EV on principle—like many of the early adopters who helped the vehicles get their first couple of percentage points of market share—researchers report that the size of this group does not appear to have changed. Meanwhile, EVs made up 7.2 percent of the market for new cars and light trucks in the first quarter of this year, more than double the share from two years ago, according to the research arm of Cox Automotive.
Or, as another co-author of the study, the Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor Jeremy Michalek, puts it: “Consumers haven’t changed. It’s technology that’s driving EV adoption.”
What does this say about the EV market?
It means that as EVs improve their features, the rapid rise in sales should continue. The features helping to drive sales include long battery ranges, fast acceleration and low costs for maintenance. But these specifics don’t quite capture the appeal of the whole package, which is that many consumers find EVs to be fun to drive in terms of ride quality in a way that gasoline vehicles are not.
Also, it’s important to note that this most recent survey of prospective buyers was conducted in 2020 and 2021, before the introduction of some intriguing technologies, like the ability of an electric vehicle to provide battery backup to a house, were available.
The biggest factor hindering EV demand is that the models are more expensive than equivalent gasoline models, the paper finds. But the cost gap is shrinking, which should help with growth in market share.
“This is positive news because it’s showing that even when we’re talking about mainstream consumers, they’re still valuing the attributes” of all-electric vehicles, said Kate Whitefoot, another co-author and engineering professor at Carnegie Mellon. “And as we continue to see increases” in a range of [EVs] and “dropping prices relative to gasoline vehicles, more and more mainstream consumers will choose electric vehicles.”
Joe Capitalist
Racism is a disease
Remember during the COVID shutdown when people weren't driving in the big cities? People could start seeing the skyline and horizon again once there was no longer the smog in the air. They got a picture of the future with EV cars.
Saint Guinefort
Verified User
Whatever it is you mean by that rant
Hint: you can't mock using gasoline power to aid electric power if you forget that electric power is necessary to get the gasoline to the car.
Anyway, the more Tesla vans that are charging on the electrical grid, the harder it is on the grid, and more electricity needs produced. Fire up those natural gas and nuclear powered power plants
Maybe we can take some of the massive subsidies oil and gas companies get and improve the electric grid!