Wind is highly unreliable. Its not nearly stable enough to count on.

So literally the least effective thing to actually combat climate change? Sold to his constituents during the worst possible time ever? By a government that can’t even figure out how to keep shanty towns from popping up in people’s neighborhood? You must work for the democrats.

That is one reason Newsom is an idiot, for not addressing the grid issue as well. 

First off people start charging as soon as they get home. Some delay the charge but most drive into the garage and plug it in the charger. When you buy a Tesla they teach you the ABCs of ownership are “Always Be Charging.” So starting around 4pm when construction crews get home you are going to see a surge. Which also…

CA doesn’t want more gas fired plants built. They are working to shut down the ones we already have. That’s part of the problem. Yeah you see the need for power and go we can do that but you cant because they wont let you. You can only do it with wind or solar. So now you need a much larger area for panels and…

15 years is a lot of time to build out the grid.

Yeah he picked a terrible time to announce it after a lot of Californians were literally sitting in the dark with no AC waiting for the power to kick back on haha.

Well, you may be right, but there are a lot of projects on the table for new California power plants, just waiting for them to be built. And not with state funds, but rather via normal investor money. So if the investment community sees potential for making money by building new electricity generating plants, they…

Its very frustrating. This news broke yesterday, mere weeks after Newsom was up on a stage talking about how hard it is to procure more electricity from neighboring states during the heatwave. There is an existing power shortage in CA and he just makes a mandate to increase load on the system while they simultaneously…

Very reasonable.  Cue the knee-jerk reactionaries!

It’s a ludicrous and unsustainable goal. California already has grid problems, with routine rolling blackouts during heat waves. How are they going to deal with that even with only 50% of their cars being all-electric. While you can physically build a nuclear power plant in five years, you’ll spend another five years…

What a logical take. Im sure you will get dragged for it. 

2nd gear: Wow. Maybe California should just secede from the U.S. now and get it over with?

Agreed, an arbitrary date with a hard cutoff is not really the way you build a path to your goal, its how you get your spouse really mad at you.

2nd Gear: Newsom is an idiot. We cant power the state as is let alone with a bunch more EVs suckling at the electrical supply. They literally went through rolling blackouts for just a 2 week heatwave. How the hell in 15 years are the power companies supposed to keep up with demand. They cant build coal, natural gas,…

not enough Indians who could afford a $20k gigantic pile of american steel, much less than extra $10k in branded accessories you are required to wear and/or display to the rest of the world. 

1st Gear.

This is so astoundingly stupid that it boggles the mind, which pretty much means it’s business as usual at Harley-Davidson.

that car has the same issue any new WRX and honda Type R has, your character is judged when you decide to drive a car that screams im 19, look at my sick race car...

Can’t tell if this is supposed to be sarcastic, and I’m taking the bait by saying the Kona EV absolutely does exist. 

Assume you are missing the /s tag? Anyway, my Kona Electric never comes out of Eco mode. Normal is OK and Sport is just too much for the stock tires and suspension. I’m digging the ID.4. But I’m waiting for the Ford Mach E before considering any upgrades (from my Golf E).