YES! This is what I came here to complain about! Stupid article premise!

What he said!

Seriously, my drives have a strong tendency to do one of two things: Die within a few weeks or last until it doesn't make sense to keep them in the drive enclosure because they are so small (relatively)!

1 - The Amazon parking lots where these things live over night is HUGE. Full of Level 2 chargers that charge them up overnight.

2 - Because the parking lots are huge, there are plans to put solar over the entire parking lot. That doesn't include the space on top of the warehouse itself (which is often even BIGGER than the parking lot). Hence, the power output of all that solar could easily handle the needs of the vans. The problem isn't feasibility (as your post seems to imply) but expense. The build out isn't simple or cheap, those amortized over 20 years, it would be an easy win-win.

Not necessarily. Those numbers do not check to see if they are employed in their field. I know a handful of recent grads. All of them are employed. But not in the field they spent time and money studying.

Hmm, maybe this is true in some fields, but my wife (who is a PhD researcher) certainly has to submit a full set of goals, criteria and methods in her grant proposals. That isn't the part of the system that is broken, in my experience.

Now the publishing end? Good lord, do I remember the ridiculousness of that part when she was going up for full professor and needed more published articles on her CV!

True, BUT...

More unemployment claims against a company will often RAISE their unemployment tax rate in the future. So if they can get people to resign and not have claims, they save money in the long run.

I am absolutely horrible about names. I can remember where I met someone, what they do for a living, what funny story they told, even what their politics are. But I can't remember their name 2 minutes after they told it to me.

I would pay good money for a set of glasses that hover a name over faces like a video game!

That's the only feature I need!

Year to date: stock has dropped 27%

Sales have dropped 13% year over year in the first quarter

So, yeah, Tesla is busting under pretty much any metric.

That's a Level 2 charger. Using a 240v dryer connection is a Level 2 charger.

You use a Level 2 charger.

A 120v wall plug is Level 1 and because it is not a special plug, literally every house in America can do level 1 and it isn't counted as having a "home charger".

And the VAST majority of EV cars aren't using ANY of those public chargers because most people charge at home. Yes, my car is often plugged in and charging for 4-5 hours at a time ... because it is in my driveway, plugged into my own Level 2 charger.

That was literally in the summary. Didn't even have to RTFA.

"there's more than 700,000 Level 2 chargers installed in single-family California homes"

Your google search skills are weak.

Studies of battery loss in EVs show between 1.8% and 2% per year loss. So for 5 years, you are looking at 9-10% range loss.

But an ICE car? In that same time span will typically lose around 5-6% in range. So it's not like the EV world is all that different from the ICE world in this regard.

Luckily, it isn't a secret. It's wrong.

Battery warming isn't necessary, though when going to a FAST DC charger, it can be used to help the battery accept a much faster charge rate.

For example, my car on level 2 in the garage will sometimes turn on the COOLING system because the battery is getting hot due to 10kW pouring into it for a few hours at a time.

Car batteries are a LOT cheaper than that.

Currently the average price per KWH is $53. The last time the average was $500/KWH was in 2014-2015

https://www.warpnews.org/energ...

Not only do most of those places not use chains much if at all, in MANY of those locations chains are illegal on your car! Chains will chew up roads like a pot smoker with a box of pop tarts!