I’m confused about the “wasting resources” comment. It’s not like the power companies are dumping kwh into a river or something at night because no one is using them. The reason power is cheaper at night is demand is (currently) low so less efficient/high cost plants can be idled over night and the remaining sources…

The problem is increasing production and transmission capability is expensive particularly when it's only necessary to meet these peak demand which represents a small percentage of time.  Additionally if we are going to transition to renewable sources we will need some type of storage for times when they aren't…

I think for this to work there would need to be a financial incentive for the ev owner and a level of control to ensure the owner's vehicle will still meet there needs.  I wouldn't want the utility controlling my charging but I might consider "renting" a portion of my battery to them if I didn't need it that day

Not sure about the front may grow on me side and rear look good, not liking the dash but I’m old

I was thinking there was an aftermarket option that would allow  lockers in high range?  Was that just the JK?

Short answer yes

Saw the one at the transportation museum in St. Louis, pretty interesting.

I think the problem is Stellantis, or at least it’s traditional american brands aren’t based primarily on hierarchy, but on vehicle type, jeep is SUV, from lowly compases to 100k trackhawks. Ram is trucks again from the 1500 classic up to the TRX. Dodge is performance.  Chrysler, well it kinda gets the rest.

Based on what I’ve read that’s not really true anymore. Ev by design operated between 20% and 80% of actual battery capacity and, Lithium ion actually prefer to be operated between about 70% and 40% to maximize battery life

for DC fast charging certainly, but how often do most EV’s do that? I don’t have an EV, but if I did I would probably only use fast charging for maybe 5% of my 12,000 miles a year.

Yeah, I was assuming nighttime level 2 charging, which (I would think) either through economics or convience would be how most EV’s are or will be charged.

Since you seem knowledgeable on the subject, how much EV charging could the grid as it stands now accomodate provided it was done on off-peak hours? Using my own state (Missouri) I estimated that 1/3 of the cars could be converted to electric while increasing system demand by about 15% which seemed entirely reasonable…

Along with bidirectional charging there needs to be a marketplace to encourage owners to charge during off peak and sell a portion back during peak hours

Funny you should say that, we just had a geothermal system installed this spring, since we heat and cool with electricity this is a huge way to reduce energy cost and the emissions related to it. I may explore solar in the future but for now my best bang for the buck is reducing the amount of energy I need rather than…

There are incintives for solar installation, although one could argue they should be higher.

Overhead or some type of 3rd rail seems so obvious for electric trains. The fact that it wasn’t cost effective over fuel cell and h2 is kinda disappointing.  Given the high efficiency of rail diesel engines, the low efficiency of fuel cells and the CO2 emissions associated with h2 production I'd be surprised if this…

I’m still a ways from retirement, but have thought about the vacation home idea, unfortunately, most of the places I’d like to spend part of my retirement are likely to be out of my price range by then. This, along with an aversion to chanage, is the primary reason I don’t plan to move, anything “better” (using…

Yeah same here despite my best efforts to minimize purchases and divest in unnecessary stuff there's a lot that has accumulated.  

Between 1996 adn 2003 I moved 8 times, in 2003 I bought my current house, I plan on leaving in a casket

St. Louis area, most decent ones (no major mechanical issues, limited cosmetic issues) seem to start at 10k here. Today may have been a fluke, I’ve seen cheaper ones in the past, in varying quality depending on price.