That's what we've been hearing but the Germans have yet to get it done, despite years of trying. Mercedes has an SLS AMG electric with 750 HP years before Tesla launched the "D" and while it'll probably still behave better on a demanding track, it's been far surpassed for short drags and city / highway driving.
And it's 4.5x the price of a top-end Model S. Audi has been showing off one e-tron model after another for 6 years but all you can buy is the A3 hybrid that reviewers say is very good - compared to a Leaf or Volt.
The BMW i8 is well-regarded by the car mag pundits but you really need good, challenging roads to appreciate its handling. But for around town and normal highways, even the midrange Model S85D outperforms it - and for $40k less.
The P85D does 0-60 in 3.2s although a few have managed 3.1s on track surfaces with really good tires and gets 11.6 - 11.8s at the 1/4 mi. The P90D which is just starting to ship is touted to have a 0-60 of 2.8s and a 10.8s at the 1/4.
The Porsche should win handily on long, difficult tracks. The Model S tries too hard to protect the battery and you can't completely defeat regen (which heats the battery very quickly) or stability control. But from a standing start or a rolling start below 50 mph, the Porsche won't catch the Model S until both of you are in the zone for a $500 speeding ticket.
The i3 was always supposed to be a city car and I thought that with those carriage doors, it would make a great taxi if BMW widened the back seat to properly fit 3 people. But it's no beauty queen.
Just a few days ago, I read that Tesla has now passed 500 Superchargers stations globally with a total of 2800 charging bays. It took them 1.5 years to get to 100 stations and another 1.5 to add the next 400.
If there were no Cat4 hurricanes forming, that would be remarkable. Them not making landfall in the US is largely a matter of luck. And there has been plenty of "extreme weather" in America since 2005, just not a lot of big hurricanes striking land.
Depends on how well your house is built. Most of the places I've lived, the roof grade is steep enough that most of the snow will slide off. There are exceptions but relatively few, maybe 20% are prone to accumulation.
Are you that incapable of thinking or reading or just that lazy? I mentioned weather forecasting - stand the panels up before the snow starts falling if its going to be heavy or do it after its going to be light.
"Think outside the box" - take your own advice. Or if you need to generate heat, put some batteries in the box.
Every method of power generation has downsides. Do gas pumps work without electricity these days? After Hurricane Sandy, there were quite a few New Jersey residents who got more quickly back to functioning even though the grid was in horrible shape. Why?? Because they had.....wait for it.....SOLAR PANELS. Some of the unprepared folks with generators couldn't get fuel.
No system is perfect and just because you find flaws that make it unattractive personally doesn't make it worthless. "Heating is the same problem, when it is - 30 and snowing" - I've lived in a few places with severe winters. There's usually VERY FEW times where you have temps that low AND lots of snow.
I live in those conditions too - since the early 70s and did outdoor construction work through 4 consecutive winters. None of these issues are more difficult than keeping homes, vehicles & roads in working condition through severe weather. It takes work, planning, foresight and innovation but that's how we got from half-naked subsistence scrounging to where we are today.
Did just that for years to get the heavy snow off the roof. Had friends who had a business doing that for people who didn't want to do it themselves. And that was long before anyone had rooftop solar and had a financial interest in keep snow off their roof.
Here on Planet Earth, we invented both mechanical and electric motors quite some time ago. And we've found ways to heat things. And we have weather forecasting, which to the surprise of some is quite accurate.
When the snow is falling, stand the panels up to minimize the amount that sticks to the surface. When the storm is over or abating, apply heat to the panel surface to melt the residue. Solar is not going to be the primary power source in snowy or cloudy countries and no reasonable person expects it to be. But it's still very useful.
Women definitely have the upper hand here in Western society.
There are YouTube videos where a good-looking guy asks 100 Americans and 200 European females if they want to have sex with him. I think he may have gotten ZERO in America and 2 in Europe but one was a prostitute. As I recall, all of the men with gfs made a point of saying, this is my gf. The implication is that some of them may have been willing. When a moderately attractive girl tried that, she managed 30 out of 100 but in the early stages was doing MUCH better than only 30%, getting 12 positive responses in the first 26 tries.
" Sometime check out how much spending went up under his brother.
No need to pick on Dubya, spending goes up under almost every president, whether Donkey or Elephant. The only difference is what they choose to increase spending on and the level of hypocrisy.
The trouble with electing a flip-flopper is once he's in power, he does what his REAL bosses want and that has never been the unwashed electorate.
Sanders is about par with 3 of the 4 leaders vying to be Canadian prime minister in a few months and they have a pretty nice country. Even their current rightwing leader is to the left of Obama, the "most radical socialist POTUS" ever.
Just this week, Rachel Maddow made that point about Jeb, just how bad he's at running for President - a 2-term Governor of the most important swing state with 2 Presidents in his immediate family.
Whether or not he becomes the nominee or POTUS, I predict it won't be long before we start referring to Dubya as the smarter Bush brother.
So are Clinton & Obama evil or not? And what about the big, bad government? Ah, to hell with all these posers, the most deserving is the guy who's been consistent all along anyway.
The problem is that most refineries produce some of their own power and do it by burning some of the fuel they're refining or producing so the line between "energy" and "electricity" is blurred.
PDF below indicates that of 36 total refineries in Texas & Louisiana, 19 of them are identified as producing (some of?) their own power - ~2.5 GW installed capacity. That's not much less than the overnight demand for Los Angeles.
Sure they are. Nothing stopping those other companies from getting in the EV, alternative energy or battery business.
Between them, GM and Chevron held the rights to large-format NiMH batteries for nearly 20 years years and somehow just couldn't succeed. . But there's more to that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's already under way and more are being added every day. Most outdoor parking spots in places with harsh winters have electric plugs for the ICE block heater. Those electrons, surprisingly, work perfectly with EVs.
Sunny places which describes a LOT of America have started building solar carports at shopping centers and stadiums. Your car gets shade AND electricity in one fell swoop. Same can be done at public parking lots.
The grid can be made ready faster than EVs will replace ICEs.
1) That's oil that could have been left in the ground or used to produce electricity or some other use.
2) That's almost entirely accounted for. The calculation takes the BTU of a barrel of crude, refining efficiency (~85%) and the BTU of the resulting refined products and converts the difference to kilowatt-hours.
Keep in mind that's only the energy consumption of the refining process. If you do a full "well-to-wheels" analysis of the various energy sources, fossil fuels start to look ugly very quickly.
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That's what we've been hearing but the Germans have yet to get it done, despite years of trying.
Mercedes has an SLS AMG electric with 750 HP years before Tesla launched the "D" and while it'll probably still behave better on a demanding track, it's been far surpassed for short drags and city / highway driving.
And it's 4.5x the price of a top-end Model S. Audi has been showing off one e-tron model after another for 6 years but all you can buy is the A3 hybrid that reviewers say is very good - compared to a Leaf or Volt.
The BMW i8 is well-regarded by the car mag pundits but you really need good, challenging roads to appreciate its handling. But for around town and normal highways, even the midrange Model S85D outperforms it - and for $40k less.
The P85D does 0-60 in 3.2s although a few have managed 3.1s on track surfaces with really good tires and gets 11.6 - 11.8s at the 1/4 mi.
The P90D which is just starting to ship is touted to have a 0-60 of 2.8s and a 10.8s at the 1/4.
The Porsche should win handily on long, difficult tracks.
The Model S tries too hard to protect the battery and you can't completely defeat regen (which heats the battery very quickly) or stability control. But from a standing start or a rolling start below 50 mph, the Porsche won't catch the Model S until both of you are in the zone for a $500 speeding ticket.
The i3 was always supposed to be a city car and I thought that with those carriage doors, it would make a great taxi if BMW widened the back seat to properly fit 3 people. But it's no beauty queen.
Just a few days ago, I read that Tesla has now passed 500 Superchargers stations globally with a total of 2800 charging bays.
It took them 1.5 years to get to 100 stations and another 1.5 to add the next 400.
Wow.
Aerovironment showed off a 250 kW charger some years back that's backwards compatible with CHAdeMO
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com...
If there were no Cat4 hurricanes forming, that would be remarkable.
Them not making landfall in the US is largely a matter of luck. And there has been plenty of "extreme weather" in America since 2005, just not a lot of big hurricanes striking land.
Depends on how well your house is built. Most of the places I've lived, the roof grade is steep enough that most of the snow will slide off.
There are exceptions but relatively few, maybe 20% are prone to accumulation.
Are you that incapable of thinking or reading or just that lazy?
I mentioned weather forecasting - stand the panels up before the snow starts falling if its going to be heavy or do it after its going to be light.
"Think outside the box" - take your own advice. Or if you need to generate heat, put some batteries in the box.
Every method of power generation has downsides. Do gas pumps work without electricity these days? After Hurricane Sandy, there were quite a few New Jersey residents who got more quickly back to functioning even though the grid was in horrible shape.
Why?? Because they had.....wait for it.....SOLAR PANELS. Some of the unprepared folks with generators couldn't get fuel.
No system is perfect and just because you find flaws that make it unattractive personally doesn't make it worthless.
"Heating is the same problem, when it is - 30 and snowing" - I've lived in a few places with severe winters.
There's usually VERY FEW times where you have temps that low AND lots of snow.
I live in those conditions too - since the early 70s and did outdoor construction work through 4 consecutive winters.
None of these issues are more difficult than keeping homes, vehicles & roads in working condition through severe weather.
It takes work, planning, foresight and innovation but that's how we got from half-naked subsistence scrounging to where we are today.
Did just that for years to get the heavy snow off the roof. Had friends who had a business doing that for people who didn't want to do it themselves.
And that was long before anyone had rooftop solar and had a financial interest in keep snow off their roof.
Here on Planet Earth, we invented both mechanical and electric motors quite some time ago.
And we've found ways to heat things. And we have weather forecasting, which to the surprise of some is quite accurate.
When the snow is falling, stand the panels up to minimize the amount that sticks to the surface. When the storm is over or abating, apply heat to the panel surface to melt the residue. Solar is not going to be the primary power source in snowy or cloudy countries and no reasonable person expects it to be.
But it's still very useful.
"snow on the pannels" - this truly sounds like an insurmountable problem. No amount of billion$ or effort could hope to resolve this.
Good thing snow doesn't fall on the roads or cars or we'd be living like Eskimos for "more than half the year".
Women definitely have the upper hand here in Western society.
There are YouTube videos where a good-looking guy asks 100 Americans and 200 European females if they want to have sex with him. I think he may have gotten ZERO in America and 2 in Europe but one was a prostitute.
As I recall, all of the men with gfs made a point of saying, this is my gf.
The implication is that some of them may have been willing.
When a moderately attractive girl tried that, she managed 30 out of 100 but in the early stages was doing MUCH better than only 30%, getting 12 positive responses in the first 26 tries.
" Sometime check out how much spending went up under his brother.
No need to pick on Dubya, spending goes up under almost every president, whether Donkey or Elephant.
The only difference is what they choose to increase spending on and the level of hypocrisy.
The trouble with electing a flip-flopper is once he's in power, he does what his REAL bosses want and that has never been the unwashed electorate.
Sanders is about par with 3 of the 4 leaders vying to be Canadian prime minister in a few months and they have a pretty nice country.
Even their current rightwing leader is to the left of Obama, the "most radical socialist POTUS" ever.
Just this week, Rachel Maddow made that point about Jeb, just how bad he's at running for President - a 2-term Governor of the most important swing state with 2 Presidents in his immediate family.
Whether or not he becomes the nominee or POTUS, I predict it won't be long before we start referring to Dubya as the smarter Bush brother.
So are Clinton & Obama evil or not?
And what about the big, bad government?
Ah, to hell with all these posers, the most deserving is the guy who's been consistent all along anyway.
SANDERS 2016!!
The problem is that most refineries produce some of their own power and do it by burning some of the fuel they're refining or producing so the line between "energy" and "electricity" is blurred.
PDF below indicates that of 36 total refineries in Texas & Louisiana, 19 of them are identified as producing (some of?) their own power - ~2.5 GW installed capacity.
That's not much less than the overnight demand for Los Angeles.
http://www.iaee.org/documents/...
YOU DIRTY RATZ!!
Sure they are. Nothing stopping those other companies from getting in the EV, alternative energy or battery business.
Between them, GM and Chevron held the rights to large-format NiMH batteries for nearly 20 years years and somehow just couldn't succeed.
.
But there's more to that story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here are two links that worked for me:
http://www.canadianyachting.ca...
http://www.tradeonlytoday.com/...
Too obvious for some.
It's already under way and more are being added every day.
Most outdoor parking spots in places with harsh winters have electric plugs for the ICE block heater. Those electrons, surprisingly, work perfectly with EVs.
Sunny places which describes a LOT of America have started building solar carports at shopping centers and stadiums.
Your car gets shade AND electricity in one fell swoop. Same can be done at public parking lots.
The grid can be made ready faster than EVs will replace ICEs.
1) That's oil that could have been left in the ground or used to produce electricity or some other use.
2) That's almost entirely accounted for. The calculation takes the BTU of a barrel of crude, refining efficiency (~85%) and the BTU of the resulting refined products and converts the difference to kilowatt-hours.
Keep in mind that's only the energy consumption of the refining process. If you do a full "well-to-wheels" analysis of the various energy sources, fossil fuels start to look ugly very quickly.
http://www.plugincars.com/refi...
http://www.eia.gov/energyexpla...