>> for better worse, the voters of California approved CAHSR only on the condition that it connect the inland cities. There's a legitimate logic to it. It's just American logic and not French logic.
> Ah, yes. France is pretty special in that everything has to connect to Paris. That is not the general situation.
That wasn't the point being made and makes no sense in context.
The question is whether you have enough power. I know I have a breakout box in my garage with one 30A circuit free.. but it's a two car garage and more cars park in the driveway.
You can install a NEMA 14-30 outlet on that spare circuit and use the portable charger that comes with the car. You'll get 24A continuous output so you can charge at almost 6kW. If you move, take the portable charger and your're only out the cost of the plug and a few feet of wire.
I'm only on a 40A circuit (dedicated wall charger) and can charge from empty overnight. Unless you have a shitoad of EVs all running 300 miles every day, you'll be just fine.
DC "fast" charging exists, but it has limitations. It's electronic payment only.
If you can afford an EV, you have a credit card.
Cars without a garage need to be preconditioned before charging.
Garaged or not, batteries still need to be preconditioned before fast charging at high kW rates.
And the numbers don't work out for relying solely on fast charging anyway. DC fast charging is not cheaper than gas even at current prices in my neck of the woods if you have a reasonabe (35-40mpg) car. Especially in very cold weather. I've run the numbers for my current electric rates. Add to that, fast charging costs are rising faster than gas prices. Given that my state screws us over for registration on an EV and insurance is higher, the cost equation is even worse if you rely on DC fast charging.
However... I recently took a 130 mile trip charging exclusively from home and, with the data from the trip, calculated that I would have to get 163 MPG on an ICE car to match the costs at current gas prices and electricity rates. If you charge at home, it's still cheaper. If you have to fast charge, it's questionable at best.
The big question now is how long until the Feds start adding a "fuel tax" to fast chargers?
1) Economics:The cost to build and operate a business has no bearing on the value of the service or product they deliver. If the value of their product is less than the cost to operate and provide, the business will close. Businesses (and industries) close all the time.
2) I have no distaste for theaters. I only expressed distaste for tobacco smoke damaging my drive-in experience. My argument is that the value proposition has shifted since the widespread adoption of very large home televisions, sound systems and the ease of home viewing. When value drops and prices rise, that is a harbinger for a business to fail. I have seen many, many theaters close in my area since the 90s; probably half of the screens. The newer style auditoriums and seating in many chains are an attempt to change the value proposition. Whether or not it works long term remains to be seen.
I forgot about drive in theaters.
There are still two left within a 45 minute drive of my house. Two first-run movies with a short intermission. Bring your own popcorn, snacks and cooler if you want. Tickets are pricey now, but no worse than a theater.
The problem is that smokers can't smoke in or near the indoor theater so they all congregate at the drive-in. It's like a tobacco bar everywhere there now, especially bad if there's no wind. It's not fun having to roll up your windows in 85 degree heat because the cars on both sides are packed with chain smokers. That happened the last three times I went. I haven't been since they legalized weed, so it's probably worse now. That's why I decided to have my own "drive-in" at home.
Or maybe theaters are just on the wrong side of the value proposition. Once you have absorbed the cost of a nice big TV and sound system, the only advantages of theaters are instant gratification for new releases and a screen larger than you can have at home.
The disadvantages, however, are numerous. Cost, inconvenience, 30 minutes of ads, annoyances from other patrons, inability of pausing, inability to adjust sound level, inability to rewind if you missed something, inability to rewatch, ad inifitum... People go to bars to socialize, not quench their thirst. Theaters are not a known for being group socialization hubs and those that do, annoy other patrons. And everything I have read says that alcohol consumption is dropping while iconic British pubs are closing left and right.
I used to enjoy taking the family to drive in theaters for a nice summer event. It was something different and fun. Then the smoker crowd ruined that for me too so I bought a projector and a big screen and now have outside movie nights at home. It's not about the money by itself that's killing theaters (and drive-ins). It's that it's just not worth it anymore.
(Of course, old and cranky describes why you're living in your house in suburbia. And why spending seems bass-ackwards. It's because when you were younger, housing was cheap, and luxuries (laptops, TVs, etc) were much more expensive. These days, housing is basically unobtainium, but luxuries are cheap - a nice laptop, a nice phone, etc., cost way less today than they ever did. )
Supply and demand. We added 50 million people (1/6 of the existing US population) in the last fifteen years; 20 million of them over just four years. You can't build homes fast enough to satisfy that demand. And in case you hadn't noticed, we ain't making any new land to put those homes on.
Want to guess why BlackRock is buying up all those single family homes all over the country? They didn't make all that money by making bad bets. They know prices are only heading up.
I wonder just how hard a thing this charger thing is. In Pennsylvania, they have EV chargers in State Parks and State forests. https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dc...
Some of them are in seriously remote places like Cherry Springs. Black Moshannon is wildernessy as well. All you need is nearby power lines.
A small handful of J-1772, Level 2 chargers. Good for plugging in at home, but not really your go-to choice for running around in the boonies, big state parks and rural areas, unless you have a lot of time to kill in that exact spot. Besides, you pray they actually work when you get there. And I say that as a Tesla owner.
I have a rural trip planned this June and my choices for one of the stops are an iffy Level-2 out in the middle of nowhere or driving well out of my way and paying 69 cents per kWh at a Circle-K; The only DC fast charger within reach.
And that's fine if you never go far from home or have enough time of that you can sit around charging.
I did the math for far from home *AND* even qualified it with this:
You might save a lot of money charging at home, but not on the road stopping at fast chargers.
Now, how am I wrong or "disingenuous"?
Spoiler alert: I'm not.
> Gates is just too smart for that.
Dont turn your brain off because you reached your moral threshold. Maybe he was involved because it wasnt about just sex. Gates and the Clintons have alwas been an immoral bunch. With enough wealth, it festered.
> when you repeat a provenly false story about Trump that anything else you say is discounted as nonsense.
Unsurprising that you don't understand why Godwin's is a useful meme and your partisan "corollary" never will be.
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