Polls say Hillary can win even without PA. Hillary doesn't need Florida to win, either. Hillary doesn't even need North Carolina to win, though one of those 3 is necessary. PA is heavily in her favor, and she's ahead in the other two as well.
Trump needs to win all THREE above listed swing states (which are polling against him) to even stay alive, and that's assuming he wins every other close state, too.
NiMH got a slow start as patents on the technology were held by car maker Daimler-Benz and not available to license at reasonable prices, which significantly limited adoption. Li-Ion came along not too long after, and the slightly higher capacity, as well as far lesser weight, made them preferred in mobile devices.
NiMH is extremely popular in the form of rechargeable AAA/AA/C/D batteries. The low self-discharge versions are far superior to disposable Alkaline batteries in nearly all use-cases, and prices have dropped so they now have payback times of just 10 or so recharge cycles.
NiMHs can be damaged by excessive discharge, and they definitely don't have the capacity.
You clearly know absolutely nothing of what you speak...
NiMH has just slightly lower energy (watt-hours) per volume (not weight) of Li-Ion, and LiFePO4 is lower power so the gap is even closer.
NiMH is absolutely NOT notably damaged by excessive discharge, nor does over-charging have significant effects. Li-Ion batteries, meanwhile, are SEVERELY affected by excessive discharge and over-charging, hence protected Li-Ion cells... NiMH doesn't need protective circuitry.
it seems that more people are moving to LiFePO4 batteries because of the higher energy density, and the fact that you can draw them to almost empty without damaging them, even though they have a huge price premium.
NiMH is probably as good or superior in every respect.
Iron Edison batteries are used in stationary solar arrays
Are they? Seems a lot of marketing hype that only a few fools buy into. Sure they can possibly last 10X longer, but they cost 10X more, too.
NiFe batteries also don't get damaged when their charge level is below 50%.
Nor do lead-acid golf-cart batteries. Charge controllers which will prevent full discharge cost next to nothing, and spec'ing twice the capacity is still FAR cheaper than expensive special batteries.
NiMH batteries could last much longer than lead-acid batteries, while being zero maintenance, but they don't get used for such purposes because, again, they're more expensive.
I'd rather surf the 'net with my desktop than my little phone display no matter how crispy it is. What are people thinking?
They may be thinking that an always-on device they have in their pocket that uses 1/100th as much power as running their desktop computer, is much more convenient for quickly looking-up information.
HTML is a markup language. It can be wrapped to any size viewport you wish, or at least it could if web "designers" didn't abuse it quite so badly. So a phone isn't necessarily inferior. In some ways its superior, as lower bandwidth pages without all the wasted bandwidth of ads, "You might also like", navbars, etc.
But personally, I greatly prefer RSS. I can plough through many times more information, in far less time on my phone with a flick of my thumb, than you can on the biggest multi-monitor desktop setup around.
We need to put a tax on the stupid/lazy. Either fine the fuck out of the vendors of these things when they get compromised (won't happen), or fine the fuck out of idiots who leave these things in the default mode and get hacked (won't happen).
What needs to happen is ISPs need to be held responsible when one of their customers is DoSing the rest of the world. You'd waste your effort going after individuals. But the ISPs can cut off individuals' internet access, maybe redirecting to a "FIX YOUR DAMN INSECURE DEVICE" page, charge a fee to re-connect their internet after they've fixed the problem, etc., and those individuals will wake-up and get the message pretty damn fast.
They also reduce wiring costs for long runs by letting you ship mid-voltage AC instead of low-voltage DC...
No. Now you're double-counting the benefits of micro-inverters, which is completely unfair.
EITHER you can have a high-voltage DC system with several PV panels wired in series, which means low wiring cost BUT also means a single PV panel being shaded or dirty significantly reduces output.
OR you can have a low-voltage DC system, with the PV panels wired in parallel, which means higher wiring cost BUT also means there's no significant output loss when a single PV panel is being shaded or is dirty.
Micro-inverters are really just a way to get the benefits of the low-voltage system, with the expense of lots of little inverters replacing the expense of large-gauge wiring. So, you can count the micro-inverters as replacing the expense of the wiring, OR you can count them as replacing the losses due to dirt shaded serially-wired PV panels outputting HVDC, but NOT BOTH.
Most people who charge at home, charge at night. So, without storage, solar panels don't help.
That's idiotic nonsense. Most people who charge their electric car at home, switch to peak/off-peak billing with their electric company. That means electricity used before midnight is insanely expensive, but solar panels can offset most of that daytime demand. And after midnight you can charge your car for a pittance.
Facebook has to change their posting guidelines to allow what's become "normal" political speech?
Right-wing political speech becomes less extreme every year. What Trump has said, while baseless and unsupported, is far less offensive than what we've previously seen from them.
"The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power⦠That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today." -Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
âoeBlacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.â -Pat Buchanan (R-Nixon/Regan administrations)
"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and thatâ(TM)s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they donâ(TM)t want to study as hard in school? Iâ(TM)ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didnâ(TM)t study hard because they said the government would take care of them." -Sally Kern (R-OK)
"Yes black lives matter. The best way to end the slaughter of young black men is to take guns away from blacks as they are the main killers." -Randy Pullen (R-RNC Treasurer)
[Chris Mapp (R-TX)] stood by his comments, made during an editorial board meeting with the Dallas Morning News, that âoe'wetbacks' should be shot by ranchers and that President Barack Obama is a 'socialist son of a bitch.'â
The carriers that need CDMA (MetroPCS and Cricket both piggyback on Sprint/Verizon) get the Qualcomm modem. The ones that only need GSM get the Intel modem.
Congratulations on making a complete and total fool of yourself...
My guess is Apple is willing to turn a blind eye to that for the "1st gen" product and use the new revenue as a carrot to get Intel to direct its engineering efforts to the features that Apple wants, probably stuff like CDMA for example.
If Apple knew the Intel chipset was inferior and chose to sell it anyway, why is there no rhyme or reason to which of the models each of the carriers use? Surely the 2nd rate one would only go to carriers who want cheaper phones in exchange for compromised performance? Instead T-Mobile and AT&T both sell the Intel chipset version. Meanwhile, the cut-rate MVNO services of those same carriers, like MetroPCS and Cricket are getting the (better?) Qualcomm chipset.
As others have shot-down your other claims, I don't see that anything you've posted makes any sense...
If you're going for a Hillary conspiracy on that same thin premise, I suppose we'd have to say Trump mush have had advanced knowledge of the NYC bombing...
California is one of the states that gets raped on taxes by the federal government; our income taxes go to pay for stuff in other states that we can't afford
No, California ends up about even, getting slightly more dollars back than they pay out to the fed.
The state getting screwed the worst seems to be Minnesota, although Connecticut, Jersey, Colorado and Boston are way up there, too. Note that most western states are getting more back from the fed than they pay out.
Importing a third world country that holds that exact opposite ideologies as your own is fucking suicide
Yeah, it sure destroyed the USA.
There are numerous Islamic countries that are very well off that aren't 'lifting a finger' to help their fellow Muslims.
That's completely wrong.
Turkey is taking responsibility for fully HALF of Syrian refugees, at great expense. Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt are home to nearly all the rest. The number going to Europe is miniscule by comparison:
Successful Muslim (Gulf) countries like Saudi Arabia are JUST AS DISTANT from Syria as the EU is. Those same distant Muslim countries ARE now contributing significant amounts of money to support the current crop of Syrian refugees (though it certainly took them quite a while, and they could reasonably be doing more). They have some peculiar issues with taking in more refugees, which seem quite strange to someone in a western country:
If it wasn't for my wife wanting to watch The Bachelor the second it comes on I would have cut the cable a long time ago.
The Bachelor is on ABC, which is broadcast over-the-are to something like 90% of the US population. Depending on your location, getting it might cost as little as $20. I wrote an in-depth tutorial that really walks you through antenna selection and setup:
I literally watch 3 channels and most nights not even that. I really can't stomach whats on TV these days
I've always been that way... That's why my favorite slogan is:
"PBS: Television for people who hate television"
You'll do better with an antenna, anyhow. Lots of sub-channels with old TV shows and movies, several of which don't even get carried on most cable systems.
Being forced to spend a half hour waiting for a car to charge [...] is going to be *FAR* more time consuming than only stopping for only about 5 minutes at someplace that may have been at most 10 minutes out of your way
Biological needs tend to require breaks about every 4 hours, anyhow. Add some time for restroom use on top of your 15 minute fuel-up time, and I would throw-in several minutes more for driving over, waiting for my order and eating at the nearest fast-food joint, too. That gets us pretty close to that 30 minute EV charging number.
You CAN road-warrior it, I realize, and leave your car unattended for a few minutes and HOPE gasoline isn't spraying everywhere, or wear a diaper on your travels. You also can take along unhealthy but convenient foods and increase your risk of accidents by eating while driving. I, and I expect most others, choose not to do that, so your 5 minute gas stops tend to be much, much longer than your theoretical numbers.
if you accidentally forget to charge your EV overnight, then you could be unable to get *anywhere* for hours,
A very cheap and simple solution to that problem is simply to NOT FORGET to plug-in your EV. Crazy, I know, but it works. I've seen people run out of fuel on the freeway, so I realize some small percentage of people will do this at some point, but I would call it an imaginary contrivance.
You already don't have to drive a gasoline car to the middle of nowhere to fill up because gas stations are quite ubiquitous already.
There are no gas stations: - in my garage - in my office parking-lot - at the airport - at the shopping mall etc.
With an EV, you can fuel-up in the places you're going to be, without waiting around your vehicle, without taking any extra time to drive out of your way, so half-hour EV charging time is much quicker than 5 minutes at a gas station. The advantages you're touting for gasoline are actually big disadvantages, and a waste of MORE time.
Given the already shorter range of EV's compared to a tank of gas, you'd be having to recharge 3 to 4 times for every one time otherwise spent refueling a gas vehicle,
I have to gas-up my car every 200 miles. I might be able to stretch that just a little bit, and the specs say it's further, but I'm not the type to wait until the fuel light comes on, and having a good bit of fuel left helps avoiding gas traps and the like. I happen to be getting better gas mileage in the city than the EPA estimate.
The Leaf and even RAV4 EV get more than 100mi of range, so that's only twice as frequent fueling stops on long trips. The Tesla model S and X have significantly better range than my car, so that would be FEWER refueling stops, NOT "3 to 4 times" more.
I'm sure there were people waiting until they could put horseshoes on their Model-Ts, too. It was just as stupid of a wrong-headed anachronism as yours.
In fact, EVs recharge faster than gasoline cars... Why? Because you don't have to drive them out to the middle of nowhere, find a purpose-built recharging station far from the place(s) you actually wanted to go to, be involved in the process, wait there until it is finished, and then go back where you wanted to be. Instead, EVs can have charging stations just about ANYWHERE. Airports, malls, movie theatres, restaurants, etc. You spend less time, effort, and money recharging an EV out in the world, than filling-up on gasoline.
This works just fine on road-trips, as people need to stop to eat, drink, use restroom, etc., and your EV gets charged-up at the same time. It works fine for commuters as many offices are installing charging stations for their employees. It works decently for apartment dwellers as well, as California requires all landlords to allow residents to have outlets/chargers installed for their EVs. And of course it's absolutely ideal for homeowners, who may NEVER find a need to charge up anywhere else.
Yeah, but no one was seriously doing jack... in the electric realm before Tesla did what the industry said couldn't be done.
Toyota, Ford, and Honda were selling millions of hybrids, for close to a decade before the first Tesla vehicle ever appeared.
Tesla giving the market a swift kick certainly helped. They were off playing with ethanol and hydrogen fuel cells for a few years. Funny that nearly all EV production stopped right as GW Bush got elected, and resumed right as he left office. This trend has run directly contrary to gas prices during those time-frames.
zero emissions simply shift their emissions elsewhere.
No, they shift a FRACTION as many emissions elsewhere. Even if the entire electric grid burned coal, it would still be cleaner because large power generation is far more efficient than small-scale gasoline engines, and it's more practical to improve emissions on a few large power plants.
And EVs actually get charged late at night, when demand is lower and a larger percentage of grid electricity is supplied by sources that can't be entirely turned off, like large hydro, nuclear, even wind.
And coal is going away, thanks to both increasing pollution regulations, but mostly fracking. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal, and even gasoline, so EVs already provide the best of all worlds, and that only gets better as solar panels drop in price.
And no, you cannot claim your EV is zero emissions because you installed solar panels on your house which you then use to recharge your EV.
Sure you can. It's not very worthwhile to install a small amount of solar panels in a home, and the electric demands of EVs make it more economical. In addition, EV households switch to peak/off-peak billing, where their daily household needs are supplied by their solar panels while rates are high, then charging their EV after midnight when electric rates drop very, very low. That's both economical, and net-zero emissions, because your PVs offsetting peak-demand of yourself and perhaps your neighbors makes the grid more efficient and much less polluting.
Right now, environmental policy is being driven by popularity and emotion.
Right now, EVERY policy is being driven by popularity and emotion. Economics, immigration, trade, security, etc. Why are you singling out environmental policies?
You don't get to draw a black box around just the car, blithely ignore what's needed to create what goes into the box,
As you (and your neighbors) only have to BREATHE what's inside the "black box", it's perfectly reasonable to call it zero emissions, and ignore the distant emissions neither you nor almost any humans are forced to breathe.
EVs are being powered almost 100% by coal and gas plants right now.
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Most everything you've said is wrong:
Polls say Hillary can win even without PA.
Hillary doesn't need Florida to win, either.
Hillary doesn't even need North Carolina to win, though one of those 3 is necessary. PA is heavily in her favor, and she's ahead in the other two as well.
Trump needs to win all THREE above listed swing states (which are polling against him) to even stay alive, and that's assuming he wins every other close state, too.
See:
http://projects.fivethirtyeigh...
NiMH got a slow start as patents on the technology were held by car maker Daimler-Benz and not available to license at reasonable prices, which significantly limited adoption. Li-Ion came along not too long after, and the slightly higher capacity, as well as far lesser weight, made them preferred in mobile devices.
NiMH is extremely popular in the form of rechargeable AAA/AA/C/D batteries. The low self-discharge versions are far superior to disposable Alkaline batteries in nearly all use-cases, and prices have dropped so they now have payback times of just 10 or so recharge cycles.
You clearly know absolutely nothing of what you speak...
NiMH has just slightly lower energy (watt-hours) per volume (not weight) of Li-Ion, and LiFePO4 is lower power so the gap is even closer.
NiMH is absolutely NOT notably damaged by excessive discharge, nor does over-charging have significant effects. Li-Ion batteries, meanwhile, are SEVERELY affected by excessive discharge and over-charging, hence protected Li-Ion cells... NiMH doesn't need protective circuitry.
NiMH is probably as good or superior in every respect.
Are they? Seems a lot of marketing hype that only a few fools buy into. Sure they can possibly last 10X longer, but they cost 10X more, too.
Nor do lead-acid golf-cart batteries. Charge controllers which will prevent full discharge cost next to nothing, and spec'ing twice the capacity is still FAR cheaper than expensive special batteries.
NiMH batteries could last much longer than lead-acid batteries, while being zero maintenance, but they don't get used for such purposes because, again, they're more expensive.
They may be thinking that an always-on device they have in their pocket that uses 1/100th as much power as running their desktop computer, is much more convenient for quickly looking-up information.
HTML is a markup language. It can be wrapped to any size viewport you wish, or at least it could if web "designers" didn't abuse it quite so badly. So a phone isn't necessarily inferior. In some ways its superior, as lower bandwidth pages without all the wasted bandwidth of ads, "You might also like", navbars, etc.
But personally, I greatly prefer RSS. I can plough through many times more information, in far less time on my phone with a flick of my thumb, than you can on the biggest multi-monitor desktop setup around.
What needs to happen is ISPs need to be held responsible when one of their customers is DoSing the rest of the world. You'd waste your effort going after individuals. But the ISPs can cut off individuals' internet access, maybe redirecting to a "FIX YOUR DAMN INSECURE DEVICE" page, charge a fee to re-connect their internet after they've fixed the problem, etc., and those individuals will wake-up and get the message pretty damn fast.
No. Now you're double-counting the benefits of micro-inverters, which is completely unfair.
EITHER you can have a high-voltage DC system with several PV panels wired in series, which means low wiring cost BUT also means a single PV panel being shaded or dirty significantly reduces output.
OR you can have a low-voltage DC system, with the PV panels wired in parallel, which means higher wiring cost BUT also means there's no significant output loss when a single PV panel is being shaded or is dirty.
Micro-inverters are really just a way to get the benefits of the low-voltage system, with the expense of lots of little inverters replacing the expense of large-gauge wiring. So, you can count the micro-inverters as replacing the expense of the wiring, OR you can count them as replacing the losses due to dirt shaded serially-wired PV panels outputting HVDC, but NOT BOTH.
That's idiotic nonsense. Most people who charge their electric car at home, switch to peak/off-peak billing with their electric company. That means electricity used before midnight is insanely expensive, but solar panels can offset most of that daytime demand. And after midnight you can charge your car for a pittance.
https://www.greentechmedia.com...
Right-wing political speech becomes less extreme every year. What Trump has said, while baseless and unsupported, is far less offensive than what we've previously seen from them.
"The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power⦠That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today." -Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
âoeBlacks Bought A Lot Of Propaganda On The Liberal Plantation.â -Pat Buchanan (R-Nixon/Regan administrations)
"We have a high percentage of blacks in prison, and thatâ(TM)s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they donâ(TM)t want to study as hard in school? Iâ(TM)ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didnâ(TM)t study hard because they said the government would take care of them." -Sally Kern (R-OK)
"Yes black lives matter. The best way to end the slaughter of young black men is to take guns away from blacks as they are the main killers." -Randy Pullen (R-RNC Treasurer)
[Chris Mapp (R-TX)] stood by his comments, made during an editorial board meeting with the Dallas Morning News, that âoe'wetbacks' should be shot by ranchers and that President Barack Obama is a 'socialist son of a bitch.'â
Except they don't, as I already explained in my comment you're replying to.
Where in my comment did I mention any of them, let alone suggesting they should get one or the other.
HINT: I've worked as a senior engineer for one of those companies...
Congratulations on making a complete and total fool of yourself...
If Apple knew the Intel chipset was inferior and chose to sell it anyway, why is there no rhyme or reason to which of the models each of the carriers use? Surely the 2nd rate one would only go to carriers who want cheaper phones in exchange for compromised performance? Instead T-Mobile and AT&T both sell the Intel chipset version. Meanwhile, the cut-rate MVNO services of those same carriers, like MetroPCS and Cricket are getting the (better?) Qualcomm chipset.
As others have shot-down your other claims, I don't see that anything you've posted makes any sense...
Trump does the same thing all the damn time, and he uses his rush to judgement as proof of how awesome he is.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-...
If you're going for a Hillary conspiracy on that same thin premise, I suppose we'd have to say Trump mush have had advanced knowledge of the NYC bombing...
No, California ends up about even, getting slightly more dollars back than they pay out to the fed.
The state getting screwed the worst seems to be Minnesota, although Connecticut, Jersey, Colorado and Boston are way up there, too. Note that most western states are getting more back from the fed than they pay out.
http://ritholtz.com/2012/02/is...
Don't worry... Volkswagen was planning ahead for just such a contingency! God bless those TDI engineers.
No it hasn't.
See the sidebar on my last link.
Yeah, it sure destroyed the USA.
That's completely wrong.
Turkey is taking responsibility for fully HALF of Syrian refugees, at great expense. Jordan, Lebanon, and Egypt are home to nearly all the rest. The number going to Europe is miniscule by comparison:
"In three days in September 2014, Turkey received some 130,000 refugees from Syria â" more than the entire European Union had in the past three years"
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/11/20/amnesty-international-85-percent-syrian-refugees-in-turkey-living-outside.html
Successful Muslim (Gulf) countries like Saudi Arabia are JUST AS DISTANT from Syria as the EU is. Those same distant Muslim countries ARE now contributing significant amounts of money to support the current crop of Syrian refugees (though it certainly took them quite a while, and they could reasonably be doing more). They have some peculiar issues with taking in more refugees, which seem quite strange to someone in a western country:
"these countries are already overloaded with foreigners. For example, 88 percent of the population of the United Arab Emirates are foreigners. For Qatar, it's 85 and Kuwait 70 percent." http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-09-03/what-are-gulf-countries-doing-help-syrian-refugee-crisis
Lots more useful information is available here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War
The Bachelor is on ABC, which is broadcast over-the-are to something like 90% of the US population. Depending on your location, getting it might cost as little as $20. I wrote an in-depth tutorial that really walks you through antenna selection and setup:
http://evilviper.pipedot.org/j...
I've always been that way... That's why my favorite slogan is:
"PBS: Television for people who hate television"
You'll do better with an antenna, anyhow. Lots of sub-channels with old TV shows and movies, several of which don't even get carried on most cable systems.
Biological needs tend to require breaks about every 4 hours, anyhow. Add some time for restroom use on top of your 15 minute fuel-up time, and I would throw-in several minutes more for driving over, waiting for my order and eating at the nearest fast-food joint, too. That gets us pretty close to that 30 minute EV charging number.
You CAN road-warrior it, I realize, and leave your car unattended for a few minutes and HOPE gasoline isn't spraying everywhere, or wear a diaper on your travels. You also can take along unhealthy but convenient foods and increase your risk of accidents by eating while driving. I, and I expect most others, choose not to do that, so your 5 minute gas stops tend to be much, much longer than your theoretical numbers.
A very cheap and simple solution to that problem is simply to NOT FORGET to plug-in your EV. Crazy, I know, but it works. I've seen people run out of fuel on the freeway, so I realize some small percentage of people will do this at some point, but I would call it an imaginary contrivance.
There are no gas stations:
- in my garage
- in my office parking-lot
- at the airport
- at the shopping mall
etc.
With an EV, you can fuel-up in the places you're going to be, without waiting around your vehicle, without taking any extra time to drive out of your way, so half-hour EV charging time is much quicker than 5 minutes at a gas station. The advantages you're touting for gasoline are actually big disadvantages, and a waste of MORE time.
I have to gas-up my car every 200 miles. I might be able to stretch that just a little bit, and the specs say it's further, but I'm not the type to wait until the fuel light comes on, and having a good bit of fuel left helps avoiding gas traps and the like. I happen to be getting better gas mileage in the city than the EPA estimate.
The Leaf and even RAV4 EV get more than 100mi of range, so that's only twice as frequent fueling stops on long trips. The Tesla model S and X have significantly better range than my car, so that would be FEWER refueling stops, NOT "3 to 4 times" more.
I'm sure there were people waiting until they could put horseshoes on their Model-Ts, too. It was just as stupid of a wrong-headed anachronism as yours.
In fact, EVs recharge faster than gasoline cars... Why? Because you don't have to drive them out to the middle of nowhere, find a purpose-built recharging station far from the place(s) you actually wanted to go to, be involved in the process, wait there until it is finished, and then go back where you wanted to be. Instead, EVs can have charging stations just about ANYWHERE. Airports, malls, movie theatres, restaurants, etc. You spend less time, effort, and money recharging an EV out in the world, than filling-up on gasoline.
This works just fine on road-trips, as people need to stop to eat, drink, use restroom, etc., and your EV gets charged-up at the same time. It works fine for commuters as many offices are installing charging stations for their employees. It works decently for apartment dwellers as well, as California requires all landlords to allow residents to have outlets/chargers installed for their EVs. And of course it's absolutely ideal for homeowners, who may NEVER find a need to charge up anywhere else.
Toyota, Ford, and Honda were selling millions of hybrids, for close to a decade before the first Tesla vehicle ever appeared.
Tesla giving the market a swift kick certainly helped. They were off playing with ethanol and hydrogen fuel cells for a few years. Funny that nearly all EV production stopped right as GW Bush got elected, and resumed right as he left office. This trend has run directly contrary to gas prices during those time-frames.
No, they shift a FRACTION as many emissions elsewhere. Even if the entire electric grid burned coal, it would still be cleaner because large power generation is far more efficient than small-scale gasoline engines, and it's more practical to improve emissions on a few large power plants.
And EVs actually get charged late at night, when demand is lower and a larger percentage of grid electricity is supplied by sources that can't be entirely turned off, like large hydro, nuclear, even wind.
And coal is going away, thanks to both increasing pollution regulations, but mostly fracking. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal, and even gasoline, so EVs already provide the best of all worlds, and that only gets better as solar panels drop in price.
Sure you can. It's not very worthwhile to install a small amount of solar panels in a home, and the electric demands of EVs make it more economical. In addition, EV households switch to peak/off-peak billing, where their daily household needs are supplied by their solar panels while rates are high, then charging their EV after midnight when electric rates drop very, very low. That's both economical, and net-zero emissions, because your PVs offsetting peak-demand of yourself and perhaps your neighbors makes the grid more efficient and much less polluting.
Right now, EVERY policy is being driven by popularity and emotion. Economics, immigration, trade, security, etc. Why are you singling out environmental policies?
As you (and your neighbors) only have to BREATHE what's inside the "black box", it's perfectly reasonable to call it zero emissions, and ignore the distant emissions neither you nor almost any humans are forced to breathe.
That's complete and utter bullshit.