San Antonio, TX
I have a BSEE from UCONN and I worked at a Navy Science lab until leaving to work on alternative energy. I saw the documentary "Who Killed The Electric Car" and within that year designed and built my first electric car. I continued converting cars for others and I am now focusing my efforts on open source electric kit cars.
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In many places, like Texas, there is a surplus of electricity at night. Nuclear plants (and others) can't be "turned off" when there is reduced load so we essentially "throw out" the electricity while still paying for it in cost and environmental impact. Electric cars will mostly be charged overnight so there is part of the solution there.
Charging an electric car requires less electricity than it does to refine an equal amount of gasoline, so by not using gas we save more electricity than we would use.
Every electric car owner that I know has solar panels on their homes. An EV can cut the payoff time in half for solar panels because you are using them to power your home and to fuel your car.
There is a lot of skepticism, especially in the media, but there are a lot of solutions. Sometimes the solutions are just correcting all the misinformation out there.
Wow, thanks for posting that. Now *that's* how it's done! How cool would it be to have solar power for EV production?