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After the MT1 truck is released, Telo is talking about making a van variant as their "second" model.

I _might_ rent FSD for the month that I would actually use it for a long road trip. Key word is might. At this point, too many broken hype statements to invest anything in what Full Self Deception might be in the future.

ERCOT had a fun day, according to this: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/balancing_authority/ERCO Looks like a ~9GW solar dip out of ~53GW system load, picked up mostly by methane burning generation, with a hint of coal and battery to boot. Glad it...

Haven't seen that before, 2023 MYLR. I do remember a video with Jeff Dahn talking about high nickel chemistries having a voltage plateau and oxygen dissolution stage when charging through ~70% SOC. If legit and but just a random coding bug, maybe it has something to do with that.

Definitely. The uphill section hurts your efficiency more than the same downhill will help you. You won't be able to regen or coast enough to make up for the extra I²R losses on the uphill unless you slow way way way down. Going up and over terrain is going to be less efficient than covering the...

I predict dancers in costumes designed to look like robot taxis, doing performance art on stage.

Oh these are additional stations to those previously published on the NEVI list? That's much better.

Yay for Dolores, we need way more DCFCs between the 550 and 491 "parallels". Boo for no Cortez, Dove Creek, or Nucla/Naturita.

At least get an adapter with appropriate locking mechanisms, plus temperature monitoring and cutout.

And you connect them both simultaneously through a USB hub, correct?

Is there anything they could do with the old ISS structure(s) to up cycle it? Boost it into a much higher orbit, connect the solar panels to some electronics and make it a massive unmanned communication / sensing platform?

Clearly their goal with all the fast food stops is trying to earn the team name "Greased Lightning" the hard way.

I get the sense that this is a one time take it or lose it trial offer. Would be nice if you could save the one month trial until you needed it for a road trip. We didn't drive much, until one of the bursts when we do. Would rather have it for then vs a month of the car mostly sitting in the...

There is a very definite bug in TACC where it maintains a following distance behind a car / truck in a neighboring lane. I've seen it since new delivery a year ago when a car was in my lane and was a valid following distance target and later changes lanes, and the TACC never resumes the "max"...

We didn't hand over the cashiers check until we had done a static inspection of the vehicle (couldn't drive it but could check exterior and interior cosmetics, lights, windows, etc). Apparently the staff's helpfulness with pre purchase inspection varies by store. We picked the service center in...

Last time I used that Chargepoint CPE250 in Bluff, I got high 70's low 80s kW on a 2023 Model Y. Not amazing speeds but just fine for a long picnic lunch stop in the park across the street.

Ahh, I was thrown off by the "EVSE" box in the diagram being specifically labeled "Tesla Wall Connector"... But yes, 100% agreed that DC coupled straight through from solar to the car and back to the inverter is a great idea. Just waiting for standards to fully settle and the prototype products...

Tesla Wall Connector pulling DC bidirectionally from the car is news to me. Didn't see that in the Gen3 manual. Have a reference for that? I know the EVerest project got a Tesla or two to dispense DC out of the charge port for a few kWh, but that's all I had heard for sure thus far. I know some...

Those exist. Here's one example, though apparently on stop sale for some reason: Ecodrain . I feel like I had heard of another brand a long time ago but don't see it now. Slightly bigger version for an entire city district:

100% agree about the Volt. Really sad that in the past decade there has only been 2 other proper EREVs released in the US really. Especially in the truck space, the OEMs really messed up not bringing those to market ten years ago. As to Tesla's restrictions on resale clause, I have the same...

Previously, I had owned 4x ICEV (including one run on 100% Biodiesel), now an EREV (Chevy Volt), and a BEV (Model Y). EREV is definitely good a "training wheels" route to going full EV. Learn how few amps of charging at home you actually need. Learn how temperature, driving style, towing, etc...

I'm still pretty new to geothermal technology, but it sounds like you understand it pretty well. I'm wondering if there's an economic case for over sizing the plant somewhat to sell higher priced MWh for "peaking", then throttling back down a bit when load relaxes mid day or mid night to...

Another vote for try to live with it at 16A (on board charger modules run in 16A chunks), 20A, or 24A depending on your wiring and other loads in the garage. We've done that for a year/ 11k mi and it's been just fine. Very rarely do we even charge over night, it's usually just ~3 hours in the...

GJ is still a 120kW, per Tesla app and my most recent stop there at the end of December.

I think you're both right in different ways. It takes far more specialized expertise and equipment to plug a well properly. Once the pollution is out of the hole it's extremely difficult to remediate. Pad sites are generally less than acre for small wells here, though there are several per...

Local auto shop or technical school program that could use it to train kids on? Otherwise if you're dead set on junking the thing there's got to be people who would love to harvest the battery modules from it first. I know I'd be there in a minute to do so if I was closer.

The Volt doesn't have a charge target that you can set. If it's plugged in, it goes to ~85% SOC on the top end, and will bring the ICE range extender on at around ~25% SOC IIRC. Though I can bring the ICE on earlier in Hold or Mountain mode. Car really won't let you go too deep into the bottom...

Extra data points for the discussion: 2013 Chevy Volt, in service since Sep 2012. ~99k miles on odometer, estimated 60/40 gasoline to electric miles. 16.5kWh gross, ~10.5 kWh usable at new. LiMNO2 chemistry in pouch format, not exactly what I'd call state of the art for longevity. Plugged in...

I found this article about hazards, regulations, and impact on communities of LNG terminals to be pretty well written. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/liquefied-natural-gas/how-safe-are-lng-terminals-nearby-communities-have-no-way-of-knowing

Please find me a grid on this planet that emits ≥ 1230 gCO2e/kWh. That's how a dirty a grid would need to be to be as bad as gasoline when well-to-wheels emissions are considered. I'll wait.

I wonder what the relative cost / benefit of recycling panels is vs donating to under privileged communities, countries, etc. The main enterprise gets to re-panel, re-inverter, and possibly re-battery with the latest and greatest, hopefully improving profitability and extending the life of...

~9000g COe is the direct tailpipe emissions only. IEA numbers have another 3300g in wasted energy and emissions from refining. Adding in extraction energy and pipelining Alberta tar sands to Houston the number could be as high as 15000g per gallon "well to wheels". Bottom line, is a plug in...

Yes, no, maybe. Neither one is what we want here, and I think it's prudent to have regs that make any/all developers think through and publicly disclose all the ecological, aesthetic, emergency services, etc impacts of what they are proposing before a single backhoe hits dirt. I don't think...

I couldn't get the maps of counties with restrictions to advance to 2023, so I'm not sure if my county made the list or not. We're technically in a special use permit moratorium while zoning regs are getting an overhaul. This was triggered by a really shady solar developer who tried to sneak a...

Rivian has a long way to go to profitability, but this might be a great step in the right direction. Two days to the unveiling... https://insideevs.com/news/711206/rivian-r2-specs-leak/

Need a few more maps to complete the collection... Potential for geothermal power. Small (~20MW) air cooled plants are great for the smaller cities in arid areas west of 100W longitude. The coasts have offshore wind potential, even if it is a higher LCOE for offshore: Don't forget...

Interesting graph. RethinkX has a lot of material covering market disruption by a new technology replacing an incumbent. Not all of it is perfectly scientific or accurate, but makes for a decent model of the world, especially for the incumbents to understand how fast their cheese gets moved...

This is insane.... https://cleantechnica.com/2024/02/20/litigation-terrorism-how-fossil-fuel-companies-use-isds-to-bully-foreign-countries/

I love the guy @ 5:30 specifically calling Toyota to the carpet for being a laggard on EVs, and slowing Norway getting to 100% plug in vehicles. Still pretty impressive what good policy and decent infrastructure can achieve. More countries need to copy that model for sure.

Yeah don't take my guess as scientifically accurate at all. There's just too many variables in my driving pattern, elevation/altitude, weather, load, battery degradation, etc. I'm guessing efficiency loss is around 5ish percent, I doubt it's 10, but don't make a purchase decision based solely on...

Agreed that the OEM Contis are not good at all. Tesla cheaped out on these and got what they didn't pay for, for sure. I've had CrossClimate 2s on my Volt for 18 months, during two Colorado winters (one very snowy, one mild) and the intervening warm seasons. Efficiency/range is slightly lower...

That's no moon.... It's a "depth star"!

I'm confused. The tweet says "Project in Utah", but the text of the letter says the location is Mojave, Kern County, California.... ?

I think this can be better said as, "we need more healthy pastures and zero concentrated animal feed operations (CAFOs)". It is really hard to keep a pasture land healthy, productive, and carbon sinking/methane radicalizing without periodic cycling of ruminants. In other words, animals aren't...

https://electrek.co/2024/02/12/stellantis-adopt-nacs-no-deal-with-tesla/

Tube fuselage does spread pressurization loads fairly well, that's true. But it's also popular due to manufacturing simplicity, ease of modifying the design with a stretch plug, etc. Airport terminals are optimized for the low width of the nose near the building, and would have to be completely...

The 787 uses electric compressors to provide cabin pressurization and conditioning. So the tech is ready. Boeing claims increased efficiency from this setup as well, versus standard turning engine bleed air + air cycle machine conditioning systems...

I've seen this when my lane splits into two, and I choose to take the newly opened lane without signaling. The visualization doesn't even register that there's a second striped lane, and screams bloody murder that I left the original lane. That and people apex corners very close the the median...

We were getting close to the trading in the Y for something else decision due to PB events. Sad to have to choose between good EV drivetrain tech + charging network vs driving a car from an OEM that actually does regression testing on software updates before releasing them. Tesla should be...

Had that on 2033.44.30.x , but car seems to be waking up and reporting better on 2024.2.2.1 the past 24 hours. Home Assistant integration is still failing to update data intermittently though, even when the car is awake and sending data to the app.