ten year break even on a $7500 system is a reduction of ~$60 per month. That’s a *significant* bill reduction for anyone.

The pricing diff is negligible at this point.

Yes I’m sure.

Some things use more power but refrigerator and AC units are significantly more efficient than a decade or 2 ago and those are significant savings.

The problem is the ‘middle’ ground is much farther than we are. We’re just seeing the tip of the climate disaster coming, it’s going to get much much worse.

Company store is out of tents, here’s an old box

Multi-tenant office buildings present yet more wrinkles, since the AC likely needs to run all 5 days as you won’t have every tenant taking the same day off in all likelihood.

One downside I see here is it further advantages the white collar job at the expense of many blue collar.

We *have* to get off fossil fuels, basically yesterday.

The problem is trying to do an ‘in place’ substitution. Individual long haul trucks are always going to be wildly inefficient.

They don’t give a damn about the potential economic consequences.

And the EV credits aren’t even that restrictive.  Anyone can avail themselves of the credits, just do the work here.

Supertankers just aren’t gonna move on direct renewables. In some ways, it’s it’s like the military. Some things just have to have the density and portability of carbon based fuel.

https://motorandwheels.com/electric-power-your-house-bidirectional-charging/

mine are on a carabiner on a belt loop. Especially with multiple bulky keyfobs, pockets just don’t work anymore!

Vast majority of people will have cars plugged in at home. Range anxiety works in favor of this.

And John Cougar Mellencamp has the ad jingle for it

One way this helps everyone is using the EV’s as a grid scale battery.

1st Gear:

3rd Gear:  Make an EV Soul the size of Ford Flex and take my money