Recent content by wwu123

It's typically about four increases per year, for the past 10-15 years, last time I checked....

AB1999 is dead for this legislative session, so it's not going to come up for a vote in the near future. At least for PG&E territory, the new fixed charge won't come into effect a year later in 2026 for some reason, so we can only hope on AB1999 to come up before then....

I was wondering why AB1999 was not a slam dunk, to cap or repeal the fixed monthly charge proposal. Apparently it was "tabled" by the CA House Speaker in a procedural maneuver, so never had a chance to come up for a vote. So basically crony politics between the House Speaker and Newsom....

I just did some CPUC math in the other thread, which suggests for PG&E about a 4.5 cent reduction on baseline usage, and 3.5-4.5 cents on higher usage - based solely on the limited data CPUC provided: CA electricity bills will have new fixed fees based on income However, the same CPUC math...

Let's look at their math another way, let's look just at the above $62K buckets (thus higher-income includes most of the working poor and middle-class as well) The low usage bucket averages $10 more using 313kwh monthly average. Since the fixed monthly fee is $24, then the rate on the first...

Not only is it regressive (lower incomes pay more), but this data painted by CPUC does not even make sense, as it somehow suggests that the vast majority of groups will benefit, i.e. pay less than they do now. But this is supposed to be revenue-neutral zero-sum game, the $24 fixed fee will be...

Model S 60 to 75 unlock eventually dropped to $2K IIRC, I think most took it at that price. I think 70 to 75 unlock also was $500 in that same timeframe. So there have been unlocks cheaper than $3K before. But as before, the value is subjective and dependent on personal situation....

500k miles is for no Tesla new or old. The post Musk made in 2019 was really referencing 1500 charge cycles per Model 3 battery module before it degrades, unfortunately entire packs (comprised of more than a dozen modules) fail for any number of reasons, including cell failure within a module...

Aren't cool spring days the time when spot energy prices tend to go negative in California, i.e. abundance of solar and lack of energy need for heating/cooling? Makes total sense to store the excess in batteries rather than "selling" at a negative price - well, that's true in general, but...

How does one tell if it's a original Gen 1 vs the later Gen 1? I bought a secondhand Gen 1 back in 2019, and I did download a couple of different manuals I found online - I notice now that one manual doesn't show a 90A dipswitch setting, the other does. But since I've only used mine at 24A...

Congrats! I'm curious if you observed the installation, and whether they indeed just kept in place your existing controller/gateway, and whether any other components/boxes were either added or removed (aside from the 5 batteries of course)... If mainly just adding the 5P's, hope you got a...

I'd also guess it's a dying 12V battery. My elderly parents don't drive much, 11K miles on 2018 M3 LR, and often car sits for 7-10 days at a time. Like you, typically very low vampire drain while it's sitting in their garage, but a few years ago they suddenly saw huge vampire drain - only...

I have to honestly admit that though I've frequented the Chipotle, Panera and other food on the other end of this shopping complex, I've never visited this bagel shop nor the CVS, and have entirely never realized there was a parking area over here! My guess is that all 12 will be in one row...

I hadn't yet seen this thread, so imagine my shock when I was waiting on the road here to turn right into the parking lot, glance to my right and see three white Supercharger cabinets staring right back at me! This will be the closest Supercharger to home by travel distance (not that I...

Surprised by the amount of snow in the photos, aren't the cherry blossoms supposed to start blooming there next week? Last year we visited Tokyo in early April and was already well past the peak bloom...