Don't know about Germany, but here in Texas production for renewables:

• * Solar peaks mid-day

• * South (coastal) wind peaks evenings

• * West (inland) wind peaks overnight

See figure 5 on page 8 of Assessing solar and wind complementarity in Texas for a chart showing this.

This has lead to a number of utilities offering "free nights" electric plans to shift usage to the night - Compare Free Nights & Free Weekends Electricity Plans in Texas

I used to be on one of those plans - by scheduling my Model 3 to charge in the middle of the night, and learning how to use the delayed start feature of my dishwasher and washing machine, I was able to cut my monthly bill by 20%.

I've since installed solar, so no longer have a free nights plan. I now use Tesla's Charge on Solar feature to only charge the car when I'm generating excess solar power.

When I want to change what's playing in my Model 3 I:

1. press the right steering wheel button*
2. say "play The Cars"

At this point a song by The Cars will start playing. The voice command can include a specific song, such as "play Shake It Up by The Cars", or specify a genre such as "play metal" or "play jazz"

The Voice Commands can control a lot of things in the car.

* yes, despite what some people would have you believe, there are physical controls in a Tesla.

How do you think we can plug in our 240V stoves, dryers, water heaters, central AC units, and EV chargers?

This YouTube video goes into how we use a 3 wire split phase connection to the grid to get 120V out of that 240V feed.

The reason we do that is historical. Power plants prior to 1900 supplied 110 volts due to early light bulbs, which would rapidly burn out at higher voltages. We eventually had a large base of equipment using 110 volts. When the grid started supplying 240v, presumably to support newer devices that needed more power, they came up with splitting it for 120V to also support all that existing equipment.

As part of their advanced technology program, with the goal of creating green jobs and reducing the US dependency on foreign oil, the government loaned:

$5.900 billion to Ford
$1.600 billion to Nissan
$0.465 billion to Tesla

From Ford's plan to defer government loan payments a 'concerning sign'

2013 Tesla repaid their loan
2017 Nissan repaid their loan
2020 Ford requested and received deferment on payment

And let's not forget the GM bailout in 2008/9, which cost US tax payers $10.5 billion

Tesla Semi is the first of several vehicles to feature a thousand-volt powertrain

“You got three times the power than any diesel truck on the road right now. So you got all the power you need to get the job done. But the other reason that it’s a beast is because it’s also efficient. You can go 500 miles on a single change on one of these things. So it’s the mix of those two, that this is why it’s a game-changer. And what’s awesome is that both of those are enabled by our new thousand-volt powertrain, which is the first vehicle that we’re doing with that ,” Priestley said.

emphasis added. I've seen numerous comments that the Cybertruck and new Roadster will also be 1000v, but don't know if that's been officially confirmed or not.

Average renewables for the US is 20.1%

Feb 2022 article about 2021: Texas led the country in new renewable energy projects last year

Texas installed 7,352 megawatts of new wind, solar and energy installation projects in 2021, significantly outpacing California, which installed 2,697 megawatts of storage projects. Oklahoma, Florida and New Mexico were the other top producing states.

Texas also surpassed other states in the amount of storage it has under construction or in advanced development, reaching nearly 20,000 megawatts, followed by California at nearly 14,000 megawatts.

Current Generation Data from ERCOT, specifically the Fuel Mix Report: 2023 puts Texas electricity generation at 40% renewables (wind + solar) for the first 4 months of this year:

34% Wind
32% Gas-CC
12% Coal
11% Nuclear
6% Solar
5% Gas (without carbon capture)

Recycling the blades is somewhat new, so it's kind of OK that you're ignorant about it. Here's an article from when Global Fiberglass Solutions opened their first recycling facility in Texas, the #1 state for wind power.

Global Fiberglass Solutions has begun manufacturing its flagship product offering -- a fiberglass manufacturing pellet made from recycled wind turbine blades.

On January 8, 2019, the Global Fiberglass Solutions recycling and green manufacturing plant in Sweetwater, Texas began commercial production of its flagship product offering, a manufacturing-grade pellet. From the look of the thousands of tiny pellets streaming from manufacturing machinery at a scale fit for Texas’ Big Country, one wouldn’t initially guess they once made up a massive wind turbine blade. This is how Global Fiberglass Solutions is advancing recycling science – again.

They've since opened another recycling facility in Iowa, the #2 state for wind power.

Texas Recycling & Manufacturing Plant
13 Industrial Drive
Sweetwater, TX 79566

Iowa Recycling & Manufacturing Plant
927 N 19th Ave E
Newton, IA 50208

3D printing is taking home construction to new heights. In Houston, a giant printer is building what designers say is the first 3D-printed two-story house in the U.S.

The machine has been pouring a concrete mix from a nozzle, one layer at a time, in hot weather and cold, alongside a sparse on-site workforce, to create a 4,000-square-foot home.

...

"We are not trying to beat the clock," Zerbe said. "It's a case study. We're learning the capabilities of the machine, learning the reaction of the material under different weather conditions. We're learning how to optimize the speed of printing," he said. "When this project is completed, we should have a very good idea how to proceed in the future."

Special Fees on Plug-In Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

Thirty-one states have laws requiring a special registration fee for plug-in electric vehicles. Of those, 18 states also assess a fee on plug-in hybrid vehicles. These fees are typically in addition to traditional motor vehicle registration fees.

So over half the states are charging extra annual registration fees to make up for what the EV owner would have paid in gas taxes.

Sadly many of these fees are punitive - last year we successfully fought one proposed for Texas that would have had EVs owners paying over twice as much per year as we'd paid the state in gas taxes for our prior vehicles. If it hadn't been punitive we wouldn't have fought it. I think the worse I'd seen was in 2019 when Illinois tried to pass an extra $1000 yearly fee for EV registration even though the average gas car driver only paid $100 a year in state gas taxes.