No Electric Cars For A Long Time To Come!!

[onepower]

Lunkster

How things change with time.  I bought a Chevy Bolt 2 years ago.  Work has charging stations and I have never paid more than $5 to charge the 60 kilowatt battery at work.  During the summer, and driving the back roads to work, I have gotten as much as 300 miles in range for a 228 mile range car.  With any new technologies, the prices are higher to begin with but come down over the years.  This is the way the research is paid for in developing those technologies.  So the more people purchase electric vehicles, the sooner more vehicles and the infrastructure to support them will come.  With the discounts, zero interest rate and tax rebates we got when purchasing the car, it really was not that bad of a deal.

There are also trickle down benefits and when it comes time to replace the battery pack you can use the old pack for solar storage at home. As well if your on a smart meter system you can charge the pack at night at the lowest rate then use a grid tie inverter to discharge the pack at peak rates during the day. In some places the peak rate is twice the lowest rate and the newest inverters can be set up to only add power at certain times and only when you need power at peak rates. So your basically always using power or stored power at the lowest rate not the highest.

There are big companies making a killing simply by buying power at the lowest rate, storing it, then selling it at the highest rate. They don't even generate any power, they simply buy low and sell high... brilliant.

Regards