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Yes. After a huge up-front cost, you can charge your shiny EV and drive it about as far as I can easily cycle in a day. Progress!
by dumb_throw 5y ago
Yes. After a huge up-front cost, you can charge your shiny EV and drive it about as far as I can easily cycle in a day. Progress!
- ithkuil 5y agoThere are some EV with >500km range per charge. The world record for cycling 560km is about 15h
- dumb_throw 5y agoAnd? You sure can't charge 500km in one day from domestic solar (which is the topic of this conversation). You might get 20km.
- ithkuil 5y agoYeah not sure why the thread ended up restricting the domestic electricity source to solar. The main conversation is what to do when gas stations cannot be re-fueled due to truck-driver-shortage-induced panic buying, and not because there is a general fuel shortage that would affect electricity distribution
- dumb_throw 5y agoMaybe, but this is a fun diversion that OP started. The UK is also suffering from a fuel shortage that is affecting electricity distribution, exacerbated by a heavy reliance on wind and an ongoing period of low winds. Oddly enough, it's all the little "100% renewable" power companies that are going bust, when you'd think they were independent of natural gas prices.
- davidhbolton 5y agoNo, the UK is not suffering from a shortage of fuel, just the delivery mechanism for one chain. BP.
- dumb_throw 5y agoI was making a comment about the supply of natural gas for electricity generation. Gas prices have spiked, which is causing issues. Several providers have already gone bust.
- ithkuil 5y agoIs the situation really so severe that if I had a Tesla I couldn't charge it at home?
- dumb_throw 5y agoIt's still playing out as we head into winter, and is already being called a crisis. I've based my life around having everything within cycling distance, so should be ok as long as the roads don't get icy!