1) We have PLENTY of power. The only time we lack power is during peak hours. EVs charge during offpeak and would actually help stabalize the grid.

I think you are misunderstanding on WHY brownouts exist. First you have to understand that in electric generation there is such things as peaks and offpeaks. The offpeak generation is mostly done by base power, while peak generation is added on by peaker plants.

No, he is pretty much wrong on every level and shows complete ignorance.

So you mean like most modern cars? especially ones with OnStar and etc?

There is nothing really preventing them from buying up cars and selling them. They can even get 3rd party certification from Tesla which allows them to buy parts and do warranty on behalf of Tesla. Prior to some European markets being open, some…

Households is just a simplified way to describe power/energy generation. But here we have storage that is for peak time use only. Its a bit complicated to even use the household simplification here because that is not what it does.

California has more than enough production capacity. What hurts them at the moment is the peaks are hurting them the most. This will help smooth the grid and help prevent brownouts and blackouts, even without any additional production.

Not really, it is just a really poor measurement of measuring “households”. What they have here is an 80mwh battery that will last 4 hours during peak times at a capacity of 20mw.

So it is all a matter of how much watts you send to each household. As long as you send 5.71 watts (about enough to charge a cellphone) to…

Absolutely nothing. First of all, the Model 3 uses a different chemistry than the ones in these. Second of all, the gigafactory plan was 35gwh for car cells and 15gwh for storage cells.

Because it hasn’t. More than likely their bill would have went down since electricity is cheaper than gasoline. Not to mention the average amount someone drives is different than how much a Tesla can drive in a day.

For comparison, if you were to drive the average of 37 miles per day, that would be about 12.58 kwh.…

You do realize that this will actually help California save money right?

What next, you are going to propose using a chainsaw to replace a fork for eating?

Not really. Statistically it is EXTREMELY rare for a lithium ion battery to explode. The failure rate of consumer lithium ion cells is above 1 out of 5 million. In comparison, your car is 1 out of 1666. Aka it is over 2000x safer than your car.

If you add thermal management to the cells, and produce the cells under…

Lithium Ion batteries are a subcategory of lithium batteries. Most chemistries of lithium ion batteries are non-toxic and non-hazardous to dispose.

That said lithium ion batteries are recyclable and are so at a profit. The gigafactory will also recycle the batteries.

First of all, you didn’t even touch any actual physics, only your misunderstanding of where we stand in terms of technology and what is required. In these 10 years, energy density of batteries has doubled by the way and continues to improve.

And just an fyi, the parameters for a combat jet is not the same as the…

You can always have a lossless conversion of energy to heat. It is from heat back to something else that cannot be 100% efficient.

So on top of the rest, you’ve demonstrated that you don’t know what a furnace is, and you don’t know how the second law of thermodynamics works. You’re on a roll!

Yes, yes you can. You can make it 100% efficient if you don’t mind breathing exhaust gasses. We’re really good at turning hydrocarbons into heat because it’s trivial.

I completely agree with this, but I’m not sure you understand the scale of the problem.

You actually believe that “EVs aren’t ready to replace all passenger cars” is a minority opinion? Hell I doubt that’s even a minority opinion amongst EV proponents (which I consider my self to be one of). But yeah, it’s an assumption.

Read your link again. “Transportation” does not mean “cars”