Ford is directly giving people installs that do just this. Batteries are batteries. And your house is significantly less taxing on the battery than driving is. It’s why car batteries can have a 2nd life as house batteries as well. When it won’t work for a car its still plenty for the home usage.

we’re talking a few percent of charge. Hardly an impact.

The fears are rational to have, but easily solved with a decent plan.

Or, you get ‘paid’ by having power instead of a blackout cuz the grid crashed.

F150 can run a full house with AC for 4 *days*. It can spare an afternoon.

The total size of all EV batteries will *dwarf* all other energy storage.

5th gear: Supersonic sounds great in theory but the practicals just don’t seem to return on the necessary investments.

So what’s your solution then?

Not quite a toddler (9) but this kid literally found a bug in the Apollo mission computers that Astronaut’s were supposedly to smart to do!

That they didn’t grok selling the car and buy something else with the post tax pymt proceeds is a sad commentary on American’s fiscal intelligence

Turbines aren’t necessarily built by the utility operators.  I’m glad it’s happening but utilities are big slow beasts, heavily regulated (for good reason) but we need to move them more quickly than they’d be inclined to do so themselves.

Would it be similar to the molten salt nuclear reactors? It self regulates by expanding out of the reactor and then flows back in as it comes back down.

Utilities, unfortunately, are actively disincentivized to do anything other than build big heavy power plants.

My wife hated cruising with a passion without having been...we went on one with some friends and she actually enjoyed it. Me thinks there’s a lot of those ppl out there.

the Marauder just seemed an attempt to copy the Impala SS of the mid 90s, and missed it by a decent gap

Yeah, the path of history is a convoluted hopscotch while doing triple axle’s.

Yeah completely agree. the Plug In Hybrid’s with 30-40 miles of EV would solve a huge number of commutes while still being range enabled for trips.

Disagree at least to a point. the *vast* majority of time ppl will be ‘filling’ at home.

Honda’s older system wasn’t as advanced as Toyota’s. It was an integrated drive train of some sort. But it still worked even if the battery was totally dead compared with a Prius that would simply stop and die when the battery EOL’d.

As a native of Rochester NY I can attest to the inland North East being basically a disaster free zone.